Orange and Earl Grey Cake
This is a cake that Axel has been toying with for some time and originally we used orange juice for...
Ingredients
| 175g | organicself-raising flour |
| 1tspBaking | powder |
| Pinch | ofsea salt, ground to a powder |
| 175g | /6oz Unsalted butter at room temperature |
| Finely grated zest of 1 orange | |
| 2-3tspOrange | extract |
| 50mlEarl | Grey tea(see below as does for cake and icing) |
| 175g | /6ozGolden caster sugar |
| 3 | Medium free range eggs |
For the cream cheese filling:
| 75g/ | 2½oz / ½ cup Full fat cream cheese |
| 20g / ¾ oz / 1½ tbsp | Unsalted butter softened |
| 150g | / 5oz /1¼ cupsIcing sugar, sieved |
| 1tsp | organicOrangeblossom water |
For the icing:
| 4-5tbspEarl | Grey tea |
| 250g | / 9oz / 2¼ cupsIcing sugar |
For the Earl Grey tea:
| 2tsp | (level)or 1 teabagEarl Grey tea |
| 100ml | Boiling water |
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180C /355F. Make the Earl Grey tea by infusing a mug with the teaspoon or teabag of Earl Grey tea. Prepare two 20cm (8 inch) sandwich tins, by lightly greasing and lining the base with baking parchment.
- Sieve the flour, the baking powder and salt together and then set aside for use a bit later.
- Next, beat together the butter, orange zest and sugar to a cream, beating until the cake mixture is light and fluffy. Next beat in the eggs one at a time, putting in 1 tablespoon of the flour mix in after each egg. Finally, stir in the Earl Grey tea and orange extract.
- Finally, fold in the remainder of the flour mix. Divide the mixture into two, spooning into each of the cake tins. Smooth into the tins.
- Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes or until the cakes are springy. Leave the cakes in the tin for a couple of minutes before turning out onto a wire rack and leaving to cool – this takes about 20 minutes.
- To make the filling, simply put all the filling ingredients into a bowl and mix together and beat with a wooden spoon. Scoop onto one of the cakes, smooth evenly over the cake, then sandwich the two together.
- To make the icing, sieve the icing sugar into a bowl. Add 3 – 4 tablespoons of the Earl Grey tea into the icing sugar and mix in with a spoon, then spread evenly over the top of the cake.
- Decorate with orange jellies or perhaps walnuts.
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