Orange Cake with Lemon Icing
Ingredients
125g soft butter
1 cup caster sugar
2 eggs
2 cups self raising flour
zest and juice of 2 oranges (need about 1 cup of juice)
Method
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, line and grease a cake tin.
Cream butter and sugar together until pale. Beat in eggs - one at a time. Add 1 cup of the flour, then 1/2 cup orange juice. Mix in the rest of the flour and then the final amount of orange juice and the zest.
Pop into tin and bake for 30-40 mins or until just cooked.
Cool on wire rack and then ice.
Lemon Icing
1 1/2-2 cups icing sugar
1 desertspoon soft butter
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Mix all together well and spread over cake.
Best served with a magazine to flip through, cuppa and children in another room!!
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