Foodie Friday: Orange Cake

 

I am joining Michael at Designs by Gollum  today for Foodie Friday .  Please click on the link and check out all the great recipes at her site.  I am willing the sunshine my way in the form of this Orange Cake.  It is a delightful cake that is easy, quick, and delicious with coffee.  The original recipe came for The Silver Palate cookbook, but I have changed it a bit.

Ingredients:

8 TBS (1 stick) sweet butter, softened

3/4 cup sugar

2 eggs

grated zest of 2 oranges

1 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour

1 1/2 TSP baking powder

1/4 TSP salt

1/2 cup fresh orange juice (2 oranges)

2 TBS of Hazelnut Kahlu'a

Orange glaze (Recipe follows)

1. Preheat  the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 10-inch bundt pan.

2. Cream the butter gradually add the sugar, beating until light.  Beat in the eggs, one at a   

    time, add the orange zest.

3. Sift the flour with baking powder, and salt. Add dry ingredients alternately with the orange  juice to the batter. I poured the Hazelnut Kahlu'a into the o.j. and poured it all in together.

4. Pour the batter into the prepared bundt pan. Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until sides of the cake shrink away from edges of the pan and a cake tester in the center comes out clean.

5. Cool for 10 min. in pan, unmold onto rack, and drizzle with Orange Glaze while warm.  Cool before serving.

Yields: 8-10 portions

Orange Glaze

1/4 cup fresh orange juice

1 TSP Hazelnut Kahlu'a

1/4 cup granulated sugar

Combine orange juice, Kahlu'a, and sugar in a small saucepan and simmer for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until a light syrup forms.