Orange Cake Recipe with Toffee Sauce, Easy Christmas Cakes

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Orange Cake Recipe with Toffee Sauce: This orange cake recipe started off somewhere else entirely and ended up as an orange cake. A friend SJ and I were discussing a book she recommended and she sent me the recipe for a lemon loaf cake that she said I must try.

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Although I do agree that fruit cakes must be baked and had at Christmas time, they are not my favourite kind. So I try to work around that by making fruit cakes but with only one fruit. That counts, right? Oranges are super flavourful and making a cake with oranges is just, a good idea you guys! Orange rind, which can be added to anything flour-based really, makes this cake that much better. While most orange cake recipes I have seen uses orange juice in the batter, this one doesn't have that. You can make a glaze with orange juice and icing sugar or go the route of this toffee sauce (recipe below) I have used. Either ways, this orange cake is delicious.

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Christmas baking is probably my favourite activity and I usually make some brownies, bars, and a cake with some type of fruit action going on. While my eggless fruit cake is possibly the most popular one I have baked and shared, this orange cake is a close second. At some point, people get tired of all that dried fruit and nuts I guess.

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This orange cake recipe bakes up nice and spongy and doesn't rise too much so don't panic. I decided to go with the toffee sauce that goes so well with the sticky date cake (another great cake for the Christmas season!) that I have now baked countless times. You can add lesser sugar to the cake if you prefer, since the sauce is fairly sweet and can make this cake quite rich and delicious. Did I mention this orange cake recipe also uses just one bowl? Win!

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Oh and also, this orange cake recipe calls for vegetable oil and usually, I am wary of using oil in cakes (I have tried a few with mixed results) but I needn't have worried at all. It worked like a charm in this one. Just buy regular vegetable oil from the supermarket, or you can use melted butter too.

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Orange Cake Recipe with Toffee Sauce

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A delicious orange cake with orange zest in the batter, served with homemade toffee sauce drizzled on top. Perfect alternative to traditional fruit cakes during Christmas.

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 55 minutes mins

Total Time 1 hour hr 10 minutes mins

Course Cake

Cuisine International

Ingredients

  

Orange Cake Recipe

• 1.5 cups regular flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 teaspoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 3 eggs at room temperature
• 1 cup sour cream
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• 2 teaspoon fresh orange zest
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

Toffee Sauce Recipe

• ½ cup packed brown sugar
• ⅛ teaspoon salt
• ½ cup cream I use whipping cream
• 6 tablespoon butter cut into small pieces
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

 

To Make the Cake:

• Pre-heat oven to 350F / 180C.
• In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
• Add eggs, sour cream, oil, orange zest and vanilla to the flour mixture.
• Using an electric blender on med-low speed, beat for 1 min, until blended. Scrap sides and bottom, beat on med. speed for 1 min. If beating by hand, do it briskly in one direction for about 3-4 mins until well blended and you can't see traces of flour sticking out.
• Spread batter in greased cake pan or loaf pan.
• Bake at 350F / 180C for 50-55min. Let cool in the pan for 10mins.
• Poke holes all over warm cake with a fork and pour the toffee sauce over it. Cool completely before cutting and serving.

To Make Toffee Sauce:

• In a pan, combine sugar, cream, salt and butter
• Bring to a boil whisking continuously.
• Reduce heat and simmer whisking for 2mins till sugar is dissolved.
• Remove from heat and whisk in the vanilla extract.
• Let it cool for 5mins or till slightly thickened.
• Pour over cake while still warm.

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Notes:
- To make this orange cake more of a christmas cake, add 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder and ½ teaspoon nutmeg powder to the above recipe. You can also try adding ½ teaspoon fresh garam masala to make it spicier.

- When measuring flour, use the scoop and sweep method - ie - scoop flour loosely into the measuring cup and when full, sweep the excess off the top.

- This is a one-bowl cake and is very easy to put together so there's no need for creaming of butter and sugar or sifting of dry ingredients. Using an electric mixer makes the mixing process more uniform so I would recommend that.

- The toffee sauce can be refrigerated for up to a week and used on any dessert or ice cream of choice. It's delicious and gets it's consistency back by microwaving on low heat or leaving out for 10 mins at room temperature.