The first cake of the year, from the Great British Bake Off How to Bake book, and a timely post as the celebrity Great Sport Relief Bake Off is on telly tonight.
A full review of the book is on its way, I am hoping it will have been better edited than the one from the first series which I did not have much success with.
I made the sticky orange cake, using homemade butter (recipe to come) made from greatly reduced double cream.
Recipe: Sticky Orange Marmalade Cake
Ingredients
175g unsalted butter – softened
175 caster sugar
3 large free range eggs – beaten
175g Self Raising flour
pinch salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
3 tbs Seville Orange marmalade
2 tbs milkTo finish
3 tbs marmalade
100g icing sugar
2 tbs warm waterGrease and line a 20cm cake tin.
Preheat the oven to 180C / 350F / GM4.
Beat the butter with a wooden spoon or electric mixer until creamy. Gradually beat in the sugar, continue beating until the mixture becomes pale and fluffy.
Gradually add the eggs, beating well all the time. Add a tbs of flour with the last of the egg. Sift in the remaining flour, salt and baking powder and gently fold in. Add the marmalade and milk.
Spoon the mixture into the in and spread evenly. Bake for about 50 – 55 mins until golden brown and firm to the touch. Run a round blade knife round the inside of he tin and turn out onto a wire rack. Warm the second portion of the marmalade and brush over the top of the warm cake. Leave to cool completely.
Sift the icing sugar into a bowl, add the warm water and mix. Spoon the mix over the cake, letting it run down the sides. Leave to set before cutting. Store in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
I added extra marmalade to the cake, and found that there was far too much icing – halve the quantity.
Recipe reproduced with permission of BBC Books
Sending this recipe to Dom’s random recipes – where this month the challenge is to cook something from your newest cookbook!
Great looking cake – I am dying to spot some reduced cream and do some home made butter myself!
the butter is fantastic! Be interesting to see how it comes out in a food processor. Also made bread with the buttermilk.
Beautiful cake , looks delectable and awesome clicks.
Thanks Nayna.
I’m a recent fan of marmalade in cakes and this one looks delicious and very pretty too. Have the book, must bake :)
My jury is still out on the book, the last one was riddled with mistakes, am wondering how many of the Amazon reviewers have made more than one thing?
that looks divine Helen – perhaps I’ll make one using the marmalade we got at Whatley Manor yesterday! Well done on making your own butter – impressive!
I think the Whatley Manor marmalade does not have enough peel in it. The cake needs peel. However, it is quite excellent on toast, the marmalade that is!
I really enjoyed that cake when I made it. I recall that you were going to bake through the first book last year? I guess you gave up with frustration given what you’ve said in this post! Hope you have better luck with this book – I’ve made a few things and enjoyed them!
I did give up. You have reminded me to put the wretched thing in the recycle bin, would not want anyone else to try to bake from it.
Short and Sweet all the way for me!
This looks fabulous and the lead photo is lovely…..I think you should submit it to FoodGawker (!!) ~ seriously, lovely cake and photos…
Karen
I did submit it to Foodgawker. Lighting issues. Dull.
What a great recipe and it would go well with the Orange Marmalade I made! Glad to share citrus-love with you!
I can say just by looking at these that they’re absolutely delicious!Thanks for sharing!
I was contemplating making some marmalade this month and love Mary Berry’s marmalade tray bake recipe. Yours looks great and as for home-made butter, now I am intrigued to know more!
This looks lovely! I needed an idea to use up some of marmalade I made last year!
Gorgeous cake… hmmm! Beautiful photographs – make me want this cake even more!
Looks delicious! I love the icing dripping down the side of the cake – great picture! Thanks for entering it to #citruslove. I have the same book but have not made anything from it yet. I cant wait to see your homemade butter recipe :)
ahhh this cake looks decadent! sticky gooey cakes are the best. sending some #citruslove to you!
That cake looks awesome! I’m sure it would be delicious with milk or tea at breakfast!
This cake looks amazingly good. Can’t wait to give it a try.
I think Marmalade Cake is one of lifes little wonders… my grandma gave me her recipe years ago and I simply adore it. This one looks damn fine too and I love all the sticky icing!… thanks so much for taking part this month xxx
What a heavenly looking cake – delicious!
Wow! making your own butter how fabulous! This cake looks lovely and must be really delicious with homemade butter. GG