Orange Poppyseed Cake

This orange poppyseed cake is wonderfully moist and delicious and it is a perfect quick mix cake that the Tefal Cuisine Companion blends within minutes. This cake can be iced with orange cream cheese icing, orange glacé icing or left uniced if desired. It is the perfect cake to freeze iced or uniced for school or work lunches.

Note: Australian spoon measurement used in this recipe. 1 tablespoon = 20 mls.
Note: You will need 3 small or 2 large oranges.

Note: Melt butter and zest and juice Oranges first.


Grease and bottom paper line 20cm x 10cm loaf tin, grease paper.

Preheat oven 160 deg.

Cake

2 large Eggs

70 gms Milk
1/2 teaspoon pure Vanilla Extract
125 gms Butter melted and at room temperature
Zest of 2 Oranges 

125 gms Orange Juice strained

300 gms Self Raising Flour
140 gms Caster Sugar 

5 gms Poppy Seeds or to taste

Insert Kneading Blade. Stopper in.

Add all ingredients in order listed above EXCEPT poppy seeds.

Sp6:15sec.

Stopper out.
Scrape sides of bowl and around blade with spatula.

Turbo 10 seconds or until smooth.
Remove blade and stir through poppy seeds

Spoon batter into loaf tin and bake 45-50mins or until done when tested.

Remove from baking tin and place on wire rack to cool.

Ice with orange cream cheese icing when cooled and refrigerate to set icing.

Orange Cream Cheese Icing

80 gms chilled Cream Cheese

30 gms chilled Butter 

280 gms Icing Sugar mixture 

20 gms Orange Juice

Insert Kneading Blade. Stopper in.

Add all ingredients in order listed.

Sp10:1min 30sec or until icing is smooth and creamy. Scrape sides of bowl with spatula as required. Mixture will form a ball at first then become smooth and creamy.