Orange Cake with Vanilla Orange Butter Filling
A classic orange cake with vanilla orange butter filling with For Cake, For Filling and Frosting, vanilla extract. Perfect for one.
Ingredients
- For Cake
- For Filling and Frosting
- 140 gm butter
- 25 gm butter
- 140 gm caster sugar
- 2 tspn vanilla extract
- 140 gm self raising flour
- 175 gm icing sugar
- 1 tspn baking powder
- 2 eggs
- juice from ½ large orange
- 1 heaped tbspn ground almonds
- 2 tspn vanilla extract
- flaked almonds for topping as required
- zest from 1 large orange
- juice from ½ large orange
Method
- 1
Preheat the oven to 170° C.
- 2
Line an approx 23 cm long rectangular cake tin with baking paper.
- 3
Zest the orange and reserve.
- 4
Juice the orange.
- 5
Cake
- 6
Soften the 140 gm of butter and add a pinch of salt (or use lightly salted butter).
- 7
Sift the flour and baking powder into a mixing bowl and add the softened butter.
- 8
Add the caster sugar, orange zest, half of the orange juice, ground almonds, eggs, vanilla extract and mix until smooth and creamy.
- 9
Spoon the cake mixture into the lined cake tin.
- 10
Filling and Frosting
- 11
Whilst the cake is baking make the filling.
- 12
Soften the 25 gm of butter.
- 13
Mix the butter, vanilla extract and icing sugar with just enough orange juice until smooth and just spreadable.