Orange cake

ingredients

• Orange cake

  • 125 gram butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 3/4 cup warm water
  • 1 orange
  • 1 cup cranberries
  • 1/2 cup walnut pieces
  • 1 1/4 cup gluten-free flour
  • 1/2 cup ground almonds

• Sugar syrup

  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 2 tablespoon water
  • lengths of orange peel, zested

method

• Orange cake

  • 1

    Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease and line a 22-24cm round cake tin.

  • 2

    Cream the butter, sugar and vanilla until fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, and beat between each addition.

  • 3

    Dissolve the soda in water. Add to the creamed mixture.

  • 4

    Mince the orange (peel and all) with the cranberries, then add the walnuts. Stir into the creamed mixture.

  • 5

    Sift in the flour, then add the almonds and mix well.

  • 6

    Scrape the batter into the tin and bake for 50-60 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. Remove from the oven. Cool for 10 minutes and turn out.

• Sugar syrup

  • 1

    For the sugar syrup, simmer all the ingredients in a pan until it becomes syrupy. When the cake is cold, pour the syrup over and serve.