sweet delights

bits of orange cake

It’s time for another simple home-made cake. I started with my square baking tin, to be filled with dough – I wanted a fluffy, juicy cake to be cut into square pieces to accompany my espresso sessions. Nothing too fancy and too tricky to prepare… In my fridge I found an organic orange… I thought about brushing orange syrup all over the cake when leaving the oven to enhance the juiciness… so it became an…

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sweet delights

orange cake w/ olive oil

It’s an olive oil cake w/ orange flavor – the basic recipe from one of my favorite cookbooks. The recipe defines cake for 2 rather small round cake pans – I used a larger springform. I made some rough calculation & decided that the area covered by 2 small cake pans or by a larger springform – like mine – was almost the same. So there were no changes necessary due to the dimension of…

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