Orange drizzle cake

It’s June now and it’s supposed to be summer here, but weather has been so depressing and cold since the last 3 days. This always happens when the school breaks up for half term thus making our holidays miserable. But when weather doesn’t agree, there is always one activity we both (my 7 year old and me) enjoy doing at home, baking! Since it’s summer (well at least it’s June) we choose this Orange drizzle cake this time which screams summer . This time I had another little helper an enthusiastic 5 year old who came for a play date. They did almost everything independently. I only gave instructions and supervised! Once the cake was out of the oven they were so impatient so I had to cut the warm cake and half of the cake was gone even before I took descent pictures.

Ingredients

Plain flour - 150 gm

Baking powder - 2 tsp

Salt - a pinch

Orange zest (unwaxed oranges) - 1 tsp

Orange extract - 1 tsp

Unsalted butter - 150 gm

Caster sugar - 150 gm

Eggs (large) - 3

Orange juice - 2 tbs

For Drizzle

Orange juice - 75 ml

Icing sugar – 125 gm

Method

• Sift flour, baking powder and salt.
•  Beat butter and sugar until fluffy.
• Add eggs one and time and beat well.
• Add orange extract and beat until mixed.
• Add the flour, orange juice, orange zest and fold in gently.
• Transfer the batter into an 8 inch greased cake tin.
• Bake it in a preheated oven at 180 degree C for about 35 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean.
•  Meanwhile make the orange syrup by mixing orange juice with icing sugar and mixing until sugar is almost dissolved.
• Once the cake comes out of the oven, puncture all over the cake with a skewer and pour the orange syrup.
• Let the cake soak the orange juice and let it cool down in the tin.