Orange Poppy Seed Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
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1 round cake
ingredients
- 354.88 ml self-raising flour
- 78.78 ml ground almonds
- 44.37 ml poppy seeds
- 185 g butter
- 157.80 ml caster sugar
- 59.14 ml orange marmalade or 59.14 ml apricot jam
- 9.85-14.78 ml finely grated orange rind
- 78.78 ml orange juice
- 3 eggs
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Icing
- 100 g butter
- 100 g cream cheese
- 236.59 ml icing sugar, sifted
- 4.92-9.85 ml fresh lemon juice or 4.92-9.85 ml vanilla essence
directions
- Preheat the oven to moderate (180C). Brush a deep, 20cm round cake tin with melted butter or oil. Line the base and side with baking paper.
- Sift the flour into a large bowl and add the almonds and poppy seeds. Make a well in the centre.
- Place the butter, sugar, jam, rind and juice in a pan. Stir over low heat until the butter has melted and the mixture is smooth.
- Gradually add the butter mixture to the dry ingredients, stirring with a whisk until smooth.
- Add the eggs and whisk until well combined.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 50-60 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean when inserted in the centre of the cake. Set aside for at least 15 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool.
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To make icing:
- Beat the butter and cream cheese with electric beaters until smooth.
- Add the icing sugar and juice or essence gradually and beat until thick and creamy. Spread the icing over the cooled cake and decorate with strips of orange rind.
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Welcome to my 'about me' page. I live on the Gold Coast in Australia with my husband, two dogs and our bird. Since we bought our house over two years ago I have developed a taste for cooking and love this website! I spend countless hours on here saving and printing recipes I plan to try out when I find the time (and get a new kitchen!).
Apart from cooking, I enjoy spending time with my husband and two dogs. We have a staffy and a staffy crossed with Alaskan Malamut. I love taking them out for a walk and a run on the beach. They have so much energy and can spend hours chasing after a ball and swimming. But both also love nothing more than cuddling up next to us and getting a scratch behind the ears or on the belly.
My favourite cookbook is my maternal grandma's cookbook that she recently gave me. Her younger brother made the book for her when he was young and it has been sticky-taped and stuck together so many times in the last 60 or more years. But I love going through it and reading all the recipes she has written and stuck in there. I love making her recipe for date slice. She used to make it every Saturday and my brother and I used to try and help her and clean out the bowl when she'd finished.
My other favourite recipe to cook is my late paternal grandmother's recipe for apple shortcake. I've been making it since I was about 12 years old and I know the recipe off by heart. I've finally started to master rolling out the pastry so it comes out thin and crispy.