SICILIAN ORANGE CAKE

HOW ABOUT SHARING A CAKE RECIPE

 AS MY FIRST POST IN 2016?

I REMEMBERED MY LAST POST FOR 2015

WAS ALSO A CAKE?

MAY THIS YEAR BE A GREAT, HAPPY AND SAFE YEAR

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016 TO ALL

I have bookmarked this recipe to do for a long time but never got down to do it until recently. The batter is easy and quick to prepare.

Basically, I find the cake similar to  orange butter cake. Baked with good quality butter, it is very buttery, with the fragrance of orange and tasty. The cake is soft, moist and is of fine texture.  It is not too sweet, acceptable to me.

I didn't using any icing for this cake as I don't fancy cakes with icing.

Recipe adapted from Jess of Bakericious

Ingredients

[use a 7 or 8 inch greased and lined square baking pan]

250 gm salted butter – room temperature

180 gm castor sugar

4 medium eggs

Zest of 1 orange

250 gm self raising flour

85 ml fresh orange juice
1 tbsp rum [optional]

1. Preheat oven at 170 degrees C.
2. Cream butter and sugar until light and very pale with an electric mixer. 
3. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, beating well between each addition. If necessary, add a spoonful of flour with the last egg to prevent the mixture from curdling.
4. Beat in the orange zest.
5. Fold in the flour all at once and mix well. Gradually, drizzle in the orange juice and mix well.
6. Spoon the batter into baking tin and bake on middle rack for 40-45 minutes or until skewer when inserted comes out clean.
7. Leave cake to cool on rack for 10-15 minutes before unmoulding.
   
   
   
   
   
   

STEAMED BANANA CAKE

Here is an easy steamed banana cake recipe....  I had jotted down this recipe from somewhere in my little notebook but forgotten to write down the source. Sorry if this is your recipe, please notify me so that I can link it to yours. I can’t remember whether it is from a printed media or blog.

Anyway, this steamed banana cake turned out well. It is soft, moist but not dense, has the fragrance of the cinnamon that blends well with banana flavour.  The sweetness is acceptable to me. By the way, I used the Cavendish bananas which I bought from Tesco.

With this recipe you can get to enjoy banana cake, steamed instead of baked or even replace the oily fried banana cake [ kuih kolok].

Ingredients

[use a 6 inch square baking tin or aluminium foil tray]

3 eggs

60-80 gm brown sugar

1/8 tsp salt

65 ml corn oil

200 gm mashed bananas

1 tsp vanilla essence

1 tbsp Rum

100 gm plain flour

1 tsp each of baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon powder

1. Prepare steamer and greased baking tin.
2. Sieve flour, baking powder, soda and cinnamon powder together, set aside.
3. Whisk eggs, sugar and salt until light and fluffy. Drizzle in the corn and continue to whisk until well combined. Add in mashed bananas, mix well.
4. Fold in the sifted ingredients lightly until well combined.
5. Pour batter into baking pan and steamed over medium high heat for 20 minutes. Test with a skewer , if it comes out clean then the cake is done.
6. Remove to cool on wire rack before slicing to serve.