Oxfordshire cider cake
( SERVES 6 )
25/6/2012
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Ready in 1 hour, serves 6 with an 18cm cake. 125g butter; 1/2 cup sugar; 2 large eggs; 1 1/2 cups flour;
Ingredients
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| 125 g | Butter |
| ½ cup | Sugar |
| 2 | Eggs, large |
| 1½ cups | Flour |
| ½ tsp | Ground nutmeg |
| 1 tsp | Baking soda |
| 1 cup | Cider, (we used Old Mout Cider) |
Orange Icing
| 1¼ cups | Icing sugar |
| 1 | Orange, grated rind, plus enough juice to blend |
| 2 tbsp | Butter |
Directions
- Preheat oven to 160 degC fan bake.
- Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add in the well-beaten eggs.
- Divide flour in half. In one half, stir in the ground nutmeg and baking soda. Place the remaining flour to one side.
- To the nutmeg-soda flour, add cider and beat to a froth. Stir frothy mix into creamed mixture. Beat it all together.
- Sift in the reserved flour and fold together gently.
- Place in a greased and paper-lined 18cm cake tin and bake for 40 to 45 minutes.
- Place icing sugar, rind and butter in a bowl and mix well. Add juice to achieve desired consistency. Ice cake once cool.
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