I've been wanting to try this recipe for a while, I thought I had read the ingredients list wrong at first, eight eggs! Really?!
Over the winter months our chickens did not lay and for a while we were buying eggs. So now they are in full production mode again we have plenty of eggs and a chance to bake this cake without feeling guilty about the amount of eggs I was using.
Our chickens are actually bantams so their eggs are a little smaller which was still fine for this cake. Our girls eat a lot of kibbled maize too so the very yellow yolks made for a very yellow cake.
This makes a huge cake and is delicious - so enjoy!
Orange Madeira Cake
You will need:
12 oz (340g) Butter
12 oz (340g) Sugar
Rind of 1 Orange (I used 2)
8 Eggs, beaten
1/2 cup Milk
Pinch Salt
2 large cups Flour
2 teaspoons Baking Powder
Icing
1 1/2 cups Icing Sugar
2 tablespoons Butter
Juice and rind of 1 Orange
Boiling Water
Method:
Beat butter and sugar to a cream. Add orange rind, beaten eggs and then milk.
Sift all dry ingredients in separate bowl and fold through wet ingredients.
Bake in moderate oven at 350F (180C) for 1 1/4 hours.
For the icing - beat together icing sugar, butter and orange juice. Add boiling water as required to reach a smooth consistency. Spread over cooled cake.
Yum!
And it was yum!! Thanks for sharing x
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome! xo
DeleteWow! That looks like one DELICIOUS cake!!! I'm hungry now.....
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Cake is soul food for me, especially if it is washed down with tea xo
DeleteDarn that looks yum! I hope you saved me a piece SIL ;-)
ReplyDeleteYou know who took the rest of it to work this morning so ask J.......he probably had a piece at morning tea xo
DeleteHave to try this-when I was little my grandma used to make an orange cake every Sunday. It wasn't a Madeira cake more of a plain sponge but she added a little orange juice to the batter and made the icing with water and a measure of Orange juice (for juice read Kia-ora!) it was my treat to lick the bowl and mix the icing...making my mouth water thinking of those days!
ReplyDeleteI love baking with oranges (and lemons). I started baking when I was about 7 or 8 years old and my favourite treats to make were orange biscuits. The icing on this was delicious.........Tom got stuck into the leftovers. I hope he has the same memories as you do of baked treats and licking the icing bowl clean when he is older. xo
DeleteI can almost smell the orange cooking through that cake from here! Looks gorgeous, I bet it tasted fab X
ReplyDeleteHow fantastic to use your own eggs!! This cake sounds and looks gorgeously delicious. xx
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