I need to thank HRH Mary Berry for this recipe – It is one of my favourites of her, a Lemon Drizzle Cake but obviously amended to turn into an Orange Drizzle Cake. I make this in a double batch as both cakes rarely lasts 2 days.
ORANGE DRIZZLE CAKE (DOUBLE BATCH)
| Serves | 10+ |
| Prep time | 20 minutes |
| Cook time | 40 minutes |
| Total time | 1 hour |
| Meal type | Dessert, Snack |
| Misc | Child Friendly, Freezable, Serve Cold |
| By author | Mary Berry |
INGREDIENTS
- 200g Soft Butter
- 350 + 200g Caster Sugar
- 350g Self Raising Flour
- 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
- 4 Medium Eggs
- 8 tablespoons Milk
- 3 Medium Oranges (Grated Zest & Juice)
NOTE
If you have a little too much drizzle but don’t want it to go to waste, insert a clean skewer into the cake several times to help the drizzle soak in
DIRECTIONS
| Sponge Cake | |
| 1. | |
| Preheat the oven to 180C and line a loaf tin with either baking parchment or loaf tin liner | |
| 2. | |
| Using an electric mixer on a medium setting, whisk together the 350g of sugar and the butter until able & fluffy. | |
| 3. | |
| Add the eggs and ring of 2 of the oranges and one of the orange’s juice | |
| 4. | |
| Reduce to a slow mixing speed and continue adding the flour, baking powder and milk alternately until all just in. Stir together just enough to be fully combined | |
| 5. | |
| Fill both loaf tins if you have 2 or leave half of the mixture until later if you only have 1. Bake for 40 mins if doing one cake or approximately 55 minutes if doing 2. After 40 minutes I reduce the oven to 160C and wait until a skewer comes out of the centre clean | |
| Drizzle Cake | |
| 6. | |
| Mix the rest of the caster sugar and the remaining orange juice and zest and pour evenly over the cakes as soon as they come out of the oven. Leave to cool in the tins if possible | |
| 7. | |
| Perfect for freezing if it lasts long enough! | |
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Thank you for hosting, joining in again with a Beetroot Heart Shaped Quiche made for my wedding anniversary. Love Orange drizzle cake, perfect for the season
Oh that sounds wonderful. Happy anniversary to you – thanks so much for joining in once again x
Thank you very much Helen, I am glad you liked my roulade. My colleagues seemed to enjoy it and have been benefitting from all my recent baking! Your drizzle cake looks perfect, just what you need with a cuppa. X
You are welcome Lucy! You sound like the perfect colleague to me 🙂 Thanks for taking part x
I love that your teapot is outside with a jumper on 🙂 x
Ha! It’s cold up north you know!
Oh wow!
That looks so amazing, I do a lemon drizzle so I wonder what this would be like <3
Thanks for posting it <3
I find the orange one that little bit sweeter for my girls – Orange and lemon together is absolutely divine too!
Yum – this sounds fantastic and who can argue with ‘no fail’ 🙂
I’m going on a road trip with Good Egg Foodie in a couple of weeks. Fingers crossed she bakes for the journey!!
Love this recipe, it’s one I’ve used before and it works every time 🙂 have baked a few things over the last week so will join the linky. Thanks for hosting 🙂
this has been on my baking to do list for ages (but with chocolate!). it looks so lovey and moist too mmmmm! loving that cup of tea next to it too lol x
So pleased to have found this post! Lemon drizzle is one of my favourite cakes, so really looking forward to trying orange drizzle!
Loving all the autumnal bakes in the linky, lots to keep me busy over the next few months!
I love citrus drizzle cakes and this one looks perfect! x
Mmm, it’s hard to beat a drizzle cake. Thanks for another fab round-up of bakes.
This sounds delicious. My lemon drizzle never lasts the day so a double batch sounds like the perfect solution 🙂
Drizzle cakes are just the BEST!
Thankyou for your lovely comendation Helen 🙂
Angela xx
way too sweet for me!!
Perhaps try it with lemon or lime to get more of a tang then? Thanks for commenting.