Orange scented pound cake

2 weeks before Matthias' first birthday, I've been cracking my head what type of cake to bake for him. It's not that cheap to buy a cake in London and too much frosting to my liking. I've been searching for an easy to bake recipe as usual and saw this at My Kitchen Snippets. Thought it is a lovely recipe and hey..I love orange cake.

Here's the recipe again.

Ingredients:
2 stick/226 gram softened unsalted butter  (I used normal butter)
4 tbsp milk
3 eggs
1 3/4 cups flour
1/4 tsp salt  (Omitted this as normal butter was used)
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp grated orange zest
1 freshly squeezed orange juice  (I added this from the original recipe)

For the glaze:
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup freshly squeezed orange juice

Method:
1) For the cake: Preheat oven to 350°. Grease a 9 x 5” loaf pan or two small loaves pan with some butter.

2) Sift flour, baking powder and salt and set it aside. Beat soft butter and sugar together until light and creamy. Add in eggs one at a time until well incorporated into the butter. Add in the orange zest and vanilla.

3) Slowly fold in the flour and milk into the mixture. Mix well. Pour into the loaf pan and bake until skewer inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow the cake to cool on pan for 10 minute before turning it into the cooling rack.

4) For the glaze: Combine sugar and orange juice in a small saucepan and bring to boil over high heat, stirring until sugar has dissolved. Reduce glaze by half. Brush some of the warm glaze over top of the cake.


Instead of doing the orange glaze as per the original recipe, I did a chocolote frosting using Silver Spoon dark chocolate flavour cake covering. Easy..just melt the chocolate and spread it on the cake.

For a simple decoration on the cake, I sprinkled some choco curls on it.

And voila..here's my birthday cake for Matthias!! Nice?



I think the cake taste good actually but it was a little hard. I wonder if it is because of the chocolate frosting. Nevertheless, will definitely try this recipe again but with the orange glaze the next time.