Orange Cake

This is a delicious cake recipe with the orange flavour making it unique..

Ingredients -
all purpose flour/maida-4cups
caster/powdered sugar-3cups
baking powder-2tspns
eggs-4
butter/oil-1cup
vanilla essence-1tspn
orange juice-2/3rd cup
orange peel/zest-1tspn
almonds,cashew nuts

Method -
Mix the maida and baking powder in a mixing bowl.
Beat the eggs and mix in the sugar till fluffy.
Add butter and mix well.
Now add the flour to the above egg mixture slowly little by little.
Scrap out the white portion of the orange peel and then use.
Add in the essence,orange juice,peel and dry fruits.
Mix well so that no lumps are formed in the batter.
Preheat the oven to 220degC.
Grease the cake pan with butter or oil.
Pour in the batter and bake for around 30-35min till a knife inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
Let the cake cool and then de-mould it.
Orange cake is ready to serve :-)