Orange Marmalade cake

It was a Valentines day morning and I had to make something special and sweet for my sweet valentine. Did not have much time as it was a weekday hence decided to bake soft orange cake. Its quite easy to make and very tasty n supersoft.

Ingredients:

• Softened butter (salted/unsalted) – ¾ cup + for greasing the tin
• Granulated sugar – ¾ cup
• All-purpose flour – 1cup
• Baking powder – 1 ½ tsps
• Eggs – 2 (at room temperature)
• Vanilla extract – 1 tsp
• Orange zest – 1 tsp
• Freshly chopped orange – 1 cup
• Marmalade – 2 tbsps
• Fresh orange juice – 1/4 cup
• Buttermilk – ¼ cup
• Pinch of salt if unsalted butter is used

Method:

• Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease and line a 6” square cake tin. I used a loaf tin.
• Sift flour, baking powder, salt into a bowl and keep aside. (These are our dry ingredients)
• Into the other bowl add butter and sugar and beat with a hand whisk or electric beater unless it becomes creamy.
• Add orange zest and then again mix.
• Add in one egg at a time and continue beating. Now add chopped oranges and mix.
• Mix orange juice and buttermilk together.
• Fold in the dry ingredients and juice and buttermilk mixture in three batches.
• Pour into prepared tin and bake for 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
• Allow cake to cool for 5 minutes in the tin and then turn out onto a cooling rack to cool.
• Dust it with powdered sugar and serve.

Thanks n Happy Baking :)

Priyanka