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oranges & lemons: the twin cakes!
Imagine an ultra-light, soft, moist, fluffy cake... just the cake (no additional whipped cream or butter cream, no cream cheese, no chocolate, no nuts, no ...), but heavily flavoured w/ orange or lemon peel? Let's have a go at it!
Prep Time40 minutes
Cook Time35 minutes
ingredients:
for the cake:
  • 300 gr flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 175 gr icing sugar
  • 2 tbsp vanilla sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 150 ml cream
  • 100 gr butter & some butter for the tins
  • zest of 1-2 organic oranges
  • zest of 1-2 organic lemons
for the glaze:
  • 3 tbsp lemon juice
  • 4-5 tbsp sugar
equipment:
  • 2 baking tins 25 cm
  • a handheld mixer
how to:
  • Preheat the oven (160 degrees C w/ fan).
  • Grease both baking tins w/ butter.
  • Put baking paper on the bottom of both baking tins.
  • Melt the butter & let it cool.
  • Grate the zest of the oranges & the lemons, but don't mix them!
  • Press out the juice of the lemons.
  • Mix flour, baking powder & salt.
  • Mix icing sugar & vanilla sugar.
  • Mix sugar & eggs w/ the handheld mixer until well combined.
  • Add molten butter & mix.
  • Add flour & mix.
  • Add cream & mix.
  • Pour 1/2 of the dough in another bowl & add the lemon zest. Distribute evenly w/ a spoon.
  • Add the orange zest to the rest of the dough & distribute evenly w/ a spoon.
  • Pour each flavoured dough in its own baking tin.
  • Bake in the oven for about 35 min.
  • If a wooden pin comes our clean when inserted in the cake it's fine. Otherwise add another 5 min baking time.
  • Let the cake in the baking tins cool down for about 10 min. Then loosen the edges of the cake from the tin (if necessary) & turn out the cake.
  • For the glaze mix the lemon juice w/ the sugar & bring it to a boil.
  • Let the glaze simmer for about 20 min until the glaze seems sticky.
  • Spoon the glaze over the cakes - maybe use a brush.
  • Let the cakes completely cool down.
Notes
Prep Time: This covers the preparations as well as the mixing of the dough. In addition it covers the preparation & application of the glaze.
Cook Time: It's only the baking time. You may add another 5 min to the baking time if a wooden pin inserted in the cake doesn't come out clean after 35 min.
Vanilla sugar: It's sugar mixed w/ vanilla seeds.
Oranges & lemons: If there are rather small oranges or lemons take 2 of them; if they are large 1 may be sufficient. Have in mind that we'll go for a real fruity cake!
Glaze: Lemon juice is rather acid & sour - so you'll need a lot of sugar! If you use too little sugar the glaze won't enhance the cake, but ruin it: therefore be careful! You may substitute 50% of the lemon juice by orange juice.
The cakes are very soft & fluffy: you may keep them just under a plate cover for 1-2 days.
When storing in the fridge the cakes become more dense & moist; you may store it in the fridge for up to a week.