Fantastic Orange Loaf

Northern_Reflectionz's Note:

This is SO good!

• Total Time: 1 hrs 15 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Yield: 1 loaf

• ½ cup butter , softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• grated orange rind
• ½ cup fresh orange juice (plus water if needed)
• 2 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ cup walnuts , chopped (optional)

Glaze

• 1 orange, juice of
• ¼ cup sugar

Directions:

1. Beat butter, sugar and 1 egg well.
2. Beat in 2nd egg.
3. Stir in rind and jucse.
4. Mix dry ingredients together.
5. Add to orange mixture til just mixed.
6. Place in a grease loaf pan.
7. Bake 325F 1 hour.
8. Mix glaze ingredients in a saucepan. Heat and stir to dissolve sugar.Spoon over top of loaf while still warm.
9. Let stand 10 minutes.

Reviews

[CFXM]

this is a fantastic recipe i uploaded 2 of my photos from it i made it tonight with a couple variations to the recipe you can see the one in the picture i just uploaded after they get approved lol. the one variation i did was i used in the cake i used the rind from 2 oranges and the way i do it is to cut the rind off with a knife and hand chop it instead of using a zester, added that to give it tons of that bursting flavor that the peel gives it then i also used for the glaze the rind from half an orange and a bit more sugar to make it a little sweeter as i found the recipe to be a little blah for the glaze the nice thing about doing this was that it gives the loaf a little spark seeing those candied pieces of orange rind scattered around on top of the loaf making it a little more snazzy looking lol. i hope someone else will try my glaze suggestion as it really does look great and adding that extra orange rind to the loaf makes it just explode orange flavor in your mouth with every bite enjoy!

[Carmen NZ]

Simple and great recipe. Didn't make any changes although I did have to bake it for more than an hour (I may have a dodgy oven though). The next time I may increase the temperature a little.

[Chef #210406]

very good recipe. i used 1 1/2 t of orange extract that gave it more of an orange flavor. nice bread.