19/03/2020
Orange Cake:
Ingredients:
All purpose flour – 2 ½ cup
Baking powder – 2 tsp
Salt – 1 tsp
Unsalted butter – 200 gm
Sugar – 1 ¾ cup
Orange zest – 2 ½ tbsp (finely chopped)
Vanilla essence – ½ tsp
Egg - 3
Orange juice (freshly squeezed) – 1 cup
Chopped pistachios – ¼ cup
Method:
In a bowl combine together all purpose flour, baking powder and salt and keep it aside.
In another bowl, beat together butter and sugar till creamy. To this add orange zest and vanilla essence and combine evenly. Add egg one by one to this and beat well.
Add the flour mixture and orange juice alternatively to the butter – egg mixture little by little and beat till well combined. Add the chopped pistachios (reserve 1 tbsp to sprinkle on top) and just mix.
Preheat the oven to 180 degree. Grease a cake tin with butter and add the backing paper . Keep it ready.pour the prepared batter to the cake tin and spread evenly. Sprinkle the remaining pistachios over the cake batter.
Bake it in the preheated oven for about 1 hour, till a tooth pick inserted at the center of the cake comes out clean. Remove it from the oven and leave it to cool for about 30 minutes at room temperature.
