Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, marmalade cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sprinkle the base of the cake tin with demerara sugar, then arrange the orange slices over the base in a slightly overlapping layer. Marmalade Cake is a simple cake recipe made gorgeous by the addition of orange marmalade. If you have been to my website before you may know that several of the cake recipes come from my Grandmother's handwritten recipe book - such as Date And Walnut Cake. Add dry ingredients to the egg mixture, mix until well blended.
Marmalade Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Marmalade Cake is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have marmalade cake using 24 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Marmalade Cake:
- Make ready the cakes
- Get 1 cup sunflower oil
- Get 1/2 cup white sugar
- Prepare 1/2 cup soft light brown sugar, any lumps squashed out
- Take 3 large eggs
- Prepare 2 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- Take 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- Get 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Make ready 1 zest of 3 oranges
- Get 1 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
- Take 2 cup grated/shredded carrot
- Get 2 cup sultanas
- Take 1/3 cup chopped walnuts
- Take 1 cup desiccated coconut
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Make ready the syrup
- Prepare 1 cup light brown sugar
- Make ready 1 juice of two oranges
- Get 1/2 cup marmalade (I used shredless)
- Take the frosting
- Make ready 2 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
- Prepare 1 juice and zest of 2 oranges
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar, sifted
- Prepare 1/4 cup marmalade, 1 tablespoon of which reserved.
Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Add the orange peel, star anise, and vanilla bean. While the cakes bake, prepare the glaze: In a small pan, combine the powdered sugar, marmalade, and water. Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt into a large bowl.
Instructions to make Marmalade Cake:
- Preheat oven to 150 C/ 300°F
- Butter and line 2* 8 inch cake pans with baking parchmemt
- In a stand mixer bowl or with an electric hand mixer, beat the oil, eggs and sugars until light and fluffy
- Sift in the cinnamin, nutmeg, baking soda and flour, and mix in with a metal spoon until muxture looks smooth.
- Add the other cake ingredients and mix well.
- Divide mixture between the two pans.
- Bake both cakes on the middle shelf for 30-35 minutes.
- To make the syrup, put the juice, sugar and marmalade in a small saucepan, simmer until all melted, then take off the heat, but keep warm.
- Set up a wire rack with something laid underneath it to catch any spilled syrup (kitchen paper or a cloth)
- Take cakes out of the oven and while still wsrm use a skewer to poke holes all over both cakes, then spoon the syrup over the two cakes.
- Allow cakes to cool completely
- To make the frosting, beat the butter until fluffy, add the zest and juice, the marmalade and mix in.
- Mix in the confectioner's sugar. If it splits, don't panic, just keep beating it for a few minutes until it comes back together
- Place the first cake top down on a serving plate or cake dish.
- Spread the reserved marmalade over the base, then spread on the filling (I had enough frosting to do the top of the cake aswell, but if you don't, you can just decorate the top with some orange zest or candied orange peel).
- Place the second cake on top, as usual.
- If you can, try keeping this cake for a few days as apparently it only gets better! :)
- Ready to serve and ENJOY!
While the cakes bake, prepare the glaze: In a small pan, combine the powdered sugar, marmalade, and water. Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt into a large bowl. Sift a second time into another bowl. Remove from oven and allow to cool slightly. While cake is cooling, pour marmalade into a sauce pan.
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