Buttery Orange Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 250 g unsalted butter, softened, chopped
• 1 1/4 cups caster sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 2/3 cups self-raising flour
• 3/4 cup orange juice
• 2 tablespoons boiling water

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to moderate (180oc/160cc fan-forced). grease a deep 28cm round cake pan, line base with baking paper.
• 2 beat butter and sugar in a small bowl with an electric mixer until light and creamy. add eggs, one at a time, beating until combined between additions. fold in sifted flour, then orange juice and boiling water.
• 3 spread the mixture into the prepared pan and bake for about 35 minutes or until cooked when tested with a skewer. stand cake for 2 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool.
• 4 dust with sifted icing sugar, if desired.