Ingredients
The following ingredients have 12 Servings
- 1 orange
- 125 gram butter
- 1/2 cup caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 cup wholemeal self-raising flour
- 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- 60 gram butter
Instruction
- Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Grease deep 22cm (9 inch) round cake pan; line base and side with baking paper.
- Squeeze the juice from the orange, reserve juice for syrup. Process or blend remaining skin and pulp finely.
- Cream butter and sugar in small bowl with electric mixer until light and fluffy, beat in eggs one at a time, beat until combined.
- Transfer mixture to large bowl, stir in half the sifted flour and soda with half the buttermilk, then stir in remaining dry ingredients, buttermilk and orange pulp.
- Pour mixture into prepared pan.
- Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Bake for about 45 minutes. Stand cake 5 minutes before turning on to wire rack.
- To make orange syrup; combine sugar, orange juice and butter in saucepan, stir constantly over heat without boiling until sugar is dissolved and butter melted; bring to the boil, remove syrup from heat.
- Pour hot syrup evenly over hot cake.