Sicilian Orange Cake With Caramelised Orange Sliced

I was working couple weekend before as a part time restaurant and there was one big group of customer which celebrating their friend birthday in the restaurant where I work. These customers bring their homemade cake and I was the one who take the cake from him and put into a plate then I was thinking that this cake looks simple but nice. From the decoration of the lemon slice on the top then I knew that this must be lemon butter cake. Then I read Ellie’s blog couple weeks ago and come across her Sicilian orange cake that she put the recipe in the blog. Then it inspired me to remake the Sicilian orange cake with the caramelised orange slice on top as decoration for my one of my colleague’s birthday.

Sicilian Orange Cake Recipe
(Adapted from AlmostBourdain)

Ingredients

250gr Salted Butter, softened
250gr Caster Sugar
250gr Self Raising Flour
1 Orange
4 Eggs

Method

1. Pre heat Oven 170 Degrees. Grease round pan with butter.
2. Zest 1 orange and with the same orange , squeeze the juice into a bowl.
3. Beat butter and sugar until pale about 5 minutes.
4. Add one egg at a time until well mix before add another egg.
5. Add Orange zest and flour bit by bit until well mix.
6. Fold orange juice into the batter until mix well.
7. Bake in the oven for 40 minutes.

Caramelised Orange Slice Recipe

Ingredients

2 Oranges, sliced
4 Tablespoon Sugar
200ml Water.

Method

Boiled water with sugar in the pan then add orange slices onto the pan and cooked until the orange translucent. Cool the orange slices into wire rack. With the leftover caramel, do not throw it away as you can brush that caramel on the top of the orange slices once you have decorated on the top of the cake.