Whole Orange Cake

To celebrate 100 likes on Facebook, here is Kerry's awesome 'Whole Orange Cake'.

Kerry said: I have also substituted lemon or mandarin in this cake. Very quick and easy. I also find it cooks in about 30-35 min in a fan forced oven, so a very quick cook when you are running out of time.

I did pinch the original recipe from somewhere, but I can't remember where.

Serves 8-10 / Preparation 15 min or less

Ingredients
1 orange skin and all
180gm melted butter
3 eggs
1 cup castor sugar
1 ½ cups self raising flour

Icing
2 ½ cups icing sugar
2 tablespoons melted butter
Orange juice and zest


Method

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees
2. Grease tin, (round tin, or bar tin)
3. Using a food processor, process whole orange until well puréed
4. Add all other ingredients and process until well mixed
5. Bake for 35-45 minutes.

Icing

Mix icing sugar, butter, zest and enough orange juice until icing is of a consistency to run down the sides of cooled cake.

Choc chip choc muffins

Still on the challenge of gluten-free, my latest attempt was chocolate muffins with choc chips.

Last weekend I had an amazing coffee muffin from a local cafe and while I was driving home from the velodrome I decided that I had completed a good workout and deserved that muffin again. Unfortunately the cafe was not open. Instead I went home and quickly cooked these muffins to take to work. I got the thumbs up from all in the office.

Next time I would halve the recipe as I didn't notice how many it cooked until I was part way through quickly cooking them. It made around 20 muffins so I did freeze the leftovers - they defrost quite well.

Also, make sure that all of the additional ingredients don't have gluten (for example, the choc chips). I didn't double check all of the ingredients but my colleague didn't have a problem with them (luckily).

Ingredients
3 cups gluten-free SR flour (I added an extra half cup of flour because I didn't think the mixture was thick enough)
3 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
200g choc chips
1 1/2 cup milk
120g butter (melted)
2 eggs (beaten)

Method

1. Add flour, sugar, cocoa, choc chips (if you are the sort of person who sifts, sift the flour and cocoa but I didn't bother)
2. Add milk, butter, eggs until just combined.
3. Place into muffin papers in muffin trays
4. Bake for 180 degrees C for 20-25 minutes.

The original recipe was from bestrecipies.com.au