Orange and Pumpkin Cake
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Serves: 10
 
Ingredients
  • 1 small orange
  • 100g pumpkin flesh, grated or blended to a course pulp
  • 175g Flora Buttery
  • 175 golden caster sugar
  • 175g sef raising flour
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 3 eggs
  • *FOR CINNAMON THE FROSTING*
  • 1 tub of quark
  • 150g icing sugar
  • 50g butter
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • splash of orange juice
  • white, milk and plain chocolate curls for decoration
Instructions
  1. Place the orange in a pan and cover with boiling water and boil for 30 minutes until the skin softens. Be careful not to allow the pan to run out of water
  2. Once softened remove from the pan and allow to cool until just warm to the touch
  3. Pre-heat your oven to 180oC / 160o C (fan) and grease and line 3 x 8 inch diameter cake tins
  4. Slice the orange in half and remove the pips and squeese out most of the juice into a glass.. Place the pipless orange into a processor or blender and blitz to make a chunky textured orange sauce. I added my pumpkin too to make an orange and pumpkin pulp.
  5. Place the butter and sugar into a bowl and beat together until pale and creamy.
  6. Add the eggs and a spoonful of the flour and beat again for a couple of minutes.
  7. Add the orange and pumpkin, cinnamon and flour and mix until just combined being careful not to over beat.
  8. Divide the cake batter between the 2 tins and then cook in the oven for about 25-30 minutes until cooked all the way through
  9. *Cinnamon Frosting*
  10. Crean the butter and quark together until pale and creamy and then carefully add the icing sugar (which I did in two batches) and beat until smooth and then finally beat in the cinnamon and a splash of the orange juice you kept back from the boiled orange for the cake earlier.
  11. Once the sponges are completely cooled, spread half the frosting in the middle of the cake and the other half on the top of the cake.
  12. Decorate with some white, milk and plain chocolate curls .
Recipe by Mummy Mishaps at http://www.mummymishaps.co.uk/2014/10/orange-and-pumpkin-cake.html