Steps to Prepare Award-winning Sweet Orange Cake

Sweet Orange Cake.

You can have Sweet Orange Cake using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Sweet Orange Cake

1. You need 1 1/2 cups of All-purpose flour.
2. Prepare 1 tsp of Baking powder.
3. Prepare 1 cup of Softened unsalted butter.
4. It's 1 cup of Sugar.
5. It's of Grated zest of 3 oranges.
6. You need 3 of eggs.
7. You need 1/4 cup of Orange juice.

Sweet Orange Cake step by step

1. With the rack in the middle position, preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F). Butter a 10 x 20-cm (4 x 8-inch) loaf pan. Line the pan with parchment paper, letting the paper hang over the long sides..
2. In a bowl, combine the flour and baking powder. Set aside..
3. In another bowl, cream the butter with the sugar and the orange zest using an electric mixer. Add the eggs one at a time and beat until smooth. With the mixer on low speed, add the dry ingredients, alternating with the orange juice. Pour the batter into the loaf pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean, about 1 hour..
4. Let cool partially. Unmould onto a cooling rack and let cool. If the cake is for a picnic, wrap in a clean tea towel or place in an aluminum cake tin..