A quick and easy cake recipe that you can make when you are low on time and don't want to mess around with lots of steps or implements to get a great resulting cake!
MOIST ORANGE POPPYSEED CAKE
1 Orange
185gm Butter (melted)
1 cup Sugar
1 1/2 cups Self Raising Flour
3 Eggs
2TBSP Poppy Seeds
METHOD
1. Preheat oven to 170 Celsius
2. Line an 18-20cm round springform cake tin
3. Wash and roughly chop orange and place in food processor
4. Add cooled melted butter, eggs, sugar, flour, poppy seeds and mix until combined
5. Cook for 45mins, or until a skewer comes out clean
6. Cool in the tin for 5 mins and remove and place on a wire rack till cool
Optional decoration
1. Thinly slice half an orange, place in a pot with 1/2 cup water and 1/3 cup sugar and simmer for 45mins.
2. Brush cake with syrup and arrange oranges on top of the cake
Notes; the cake is moist and sweet, but a little bit 'grown-up', as it has the tang/bittersweet orange peel throughout.
