Italian Orange Drizzle Cake Recipes

ORANGE DRIZZLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch cake pan well using butter and flour.
• Combine flour, eggs, sugar, butter, orange juice, orange zest, and baking powder in a bowl. Mix with an electric hand mixer or stand mixer until batter comes together and is pale in color. Pour into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, 30 to 40 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool in the pan for 5 minutes. Carefully remove from the pan and place on a cooling rack with a tray underneath.
• While cake cools, combine sugar and orange juice for drizzle in a small bowl. Pour over the still-warm cake. Let cool completely before slicing.

ORANGE DRIZZLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 180C/Fan 160C/Gas Mark 4. Beat the butter and 225g sugar together until pale and creamy. Add the eggs, one at a time, slowly mixing through after each addition.
• Sift in the flour then add the zest of the orange and mix until well combined.
• Line a loaf tin with grease-proof paper then spoon in the mixture and level the top.
• Bake for 45-50 minutes until a thin skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
• While the cake is cooling in its tin, mix the juice of the orange with the 25g sugar. Prick the warm cake all over with a fork and drizzle the drizzle over the top.
• Leave in the tin until completely cool, then remove and serve. Will keep in an airtight container for 3-4 days and will freeze for up to 1 month.

ITALIAN ORANGE DRIZZLE CAKE

Steps:

• Melt butter.
• Whisk eggs, icing sugar, caster sugar and orange zest until pale and fluffy (takes about 5 minutes with an electric hand whisk).
• Fold in melted butter with a large metal spoon.
• Sieve flour and baking powder together and gently fold into egg mixture.
• Bake at 180°C in a greased and lined 20cm tin for 30-35 minutes.
• Cool for 5-10 minutes in the tine before turning out to cool completely.
• To make icing mix icing sugar with orange juice until fairly runny and drizzle all over the cooled cake.