Orange and Yoghurt Cake with a Honey Glaze

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The Orange Yoghurt Cake with a simple orange-flavoured icing

The Orange Yoghurt Cake with a simple orange-flavoured icing

This cake evolved from a perfectly written French version, but naturally I started off without checking that I had all the ingredients..

Story of my life, honestly..

But also: Necessity is the Mother of invention..

So here we’ve ended up with a delicious Orange Yoghurt cake with a honey and orange glaze, by accident. It’s perfect for offering a slice to anyone who happens to call by, now that we actually can call by again!

EQUIPMENT:

  • A medium sized Jug
  • A medium sized bowl
  • A whisk
  • A sieve
  • an 8inch/24cm round sponge tin

For the glaze: Or see NOTES below, for orange-flavoured icing recipe..

  • small saucepan
  • pastry brush

INGREDIENTS:                                                 

  • 200g sugar
  • 2 Oranges, zested and juiced
  • 120g low fat natural yoghurt
  • 3 eggs
  • 200g Plain flour
  • 10g Baking powder
  • a pinch of salt
  • 115g melted butter OR 115mls flavourless oil (see NOTES).

For the glaze:

  • 1 tablespoon of runny honey
  • 3-4 tablespoons of orange juice

METHOD:

  • Heat the oven to 180 Fan
  • Butter the tin,  and line the base with baking parchment. I use the ready-cut ones.
  • Put the sugar, orange zest, yoghurt, oil/melted butter and eggs into the jug, and mix together with the whisk

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  • Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into the bowl
  • Add the wet ingredients and fold in (I just used the whisk to do this) the mixture will be nice and shiny.
  • Pour the whole lot into the prepared tin, and pop into the oven.

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  • Bake for 10 minutes at 180 Fan, then reduce the heat to 160 and give it a further 25-30 minutes, until the top springs back when you press it, and  a tester comes out clean.

Make up the glaze:

  • Put the honey and orange juice into a small saucepan and heat until the honey is melted and the mixture has boiled.
  • As soon as the cake comes out of the oven, paint the top of the cake liberally with the glaze using the pastry brush
  • Leave the cake to cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then remove it onto a rack to cool fully. I gave it a second coat while it was on the rack, just because I had some of the glaze left over.
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Look at that shine!

NOTES:

  • The original recipe called for 115ml flavourless oil, and I really thought that I had some, but it was nowhere to be found – I blame that deep-clean I did last week. Therefore I used melted butter. If you can find your flavourless oil, please feel free to use it instead of butter.
  • I had Full Fat Greek yoghurt, so I used that. Apparently low fat or 2% natural yoghurt is best. Don’t use 0% fat or flavoured yogurts.
  • You could use Lemon zest and juice if you prefer, or even mix up your citrus fruits – depending on what you have to hand.
  • I also made this cake in a 2lb loaf tin – and the circular sponge tin gave a much better result, so I won’t be using anything else in future.
  • This cake would be also delicious with a drizzle of Orange-flavoured icing instead of the  glaze if you prefer –  just use some of the juice from the zested oranges – the icing recipe is below:

ICING:

  • 200g  – or thereabouts – of sifted Icing sugar
  • Orange juice, from the zested oranges – then drink the rest!!
  • 1-2 teaspoons of Boiling water
  • Add a – very – little  juice to the sugar and start stirring.
  • Add a teaspoon of hot water to make mixing it a little easier.
  • Stir all the time until the icing has a nice dropping consistency.
  • If you think it’s too watery, just sift in some more icing sugar.
  • Drizzle or spread the icing over the cold cake, allowing it to run artistically down the sides a little.
  • Allow to set ( 15-20 mins), then slice and enjoy!

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