Tag: quick orange cake

Loaf cakes

When I say loaf cake, I am not thinking of the french size long tin, which we refer to as “moule a cake”.  Yes, as funny as it is, we have a cake in France which name is the word “Cake” as such, that is in English! How funny!  I will do a post on this famous “cake” and the numerous derivatives mastered by the French, I am not kidding there are tens of books on those “cakes”.

Today I am speaking about the large ad generous loaf cakes.  They are not top elegant (like the “cake” cake) but are so comforting.  They also have a great advantage: they can feed a crowd!

Here are two of them: the classic australian banana cake and a quick orange cake which I am asking you to try because it is really worth it!

The classic banana bread

Yum! I am warning you :

  1. it is delicious
  2. it is nutritious and even more if you serve it with a salted caramel spread, it then becomes quite indulgent.

So freeze these very ripe bananas until you get a few and go for it! The recipe is HERE.

LOAF CAKE BANANA BREAD

The not so known quick orange cake

I like to think of that one as the “hubby bake”. If my husband was one day to bake a cake (he never has), he would like to put it all in the food processor, press start, transfer to the tin and bake. Well this is pretty much this cake! you put everything, the whole orange skin and all! I have made this orange cake again and again over the years.  The recipe is from a Australian Country Women cook book given to me by friends years ago (because they wanted to give me something Australian  and liked coming home for some meals!). Not sure if they are reading today but thank you!

This time I added some walnuts, but it is also great without. Just give it a try! The recipe is HERE.

No health warning here, butter has been swapped for oil.

orange cake loaf

Quick orange cake

This quick orange cake is a loaf cake.  And an easy and quick one as its name implies.

All you need for ingredient is a lonely orange and the cake core ingredients plus a good food processor.  No butter here, it is replaced by oil, which makes the cake quite light.  Everything goes into the food processor (or pretty much, the flour is added after in a bog bowl), whizzzz, and this is it!

The recipe is from the Australian Country Women Association.  In this version I have added three generous handfuls of walnuts.

Ingredients
  • 1 orange cut in quarters, skin and all kept (feel free to remove the pips)
  • 1 1/4 cup of oil (sunflower for e.g.)
  • 1.5 cup of caster sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 cups of self raising flour
  • Here in the version pictured I have added three handfuls of walnuts roughly broken up (by hand)
Method
  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C and butter and flour a loaf tin
  2. Cut the orange in quarters, place in the food processor with the eggs, sugar, oil and mix until blended (don’t worry if there are tiny bits of oranges here and there, this will be lovely)
  3. If you food processor is large enough add the flour and walnuts (if adding) and mix, otherwise transfer to a bowl and mix in the flour.
  4. Place in the prepared loaf tin and bake for about 45 minutes or until cooked.

orange cake loaf