Orange Sponge Cake
A versatile orange sponge that's perfect on its own, or deliciously different for a trifle.
Ingredients
Serves: 12
- 3 eggs, separated
- 200g (7 oz) caster sugar
- 1 tablespoon orange zest
- 200g (7 oz) plain flour
- 1 dessertspoon baking powder
- 6 tablespoons orange juice
Method
Prep:20min ›
Cook:50min ›
Ready in:1hr10min
- Preheat oven to 160 C / Gas mark 3. Grease and flour one 23cm (9 in) cake tin.
- Beat egg yolks, sugar and orange zest until light and fluffy. Mix flour and baking powder together. Alternately add flour mixture and orange juice to the egg yolk mixture.
- In a separate large clean bowl, with a clean wire whisk or electric beater, beat egg whites to stiff peaks, and fold into batter.
- Pour batter into prepared tin and bake in preheated oven for 50 to 60 minutes.
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How on earth did others make this and like it?! There's no oil, butter or marg in it! By the egg yolk stage, it looked so dry and pitiful that I had to add 150g stork. - 07 Jun 2011
This recipe was amazing, planning to use it again for Mother's Day! I altered the recipe a bit (1 full egg to mix into the batter to make it more moist and then used self-raising flour instead of baking powder and plain flour). Also I poured melted terry's chocolate orange on top of the cake so when it hardened not only did look incredible it tasted just as great! - 17 Mar 2012
Fantastic. I used a little less sugar, the rind from two large oranges, twice as much orange juice and now have a lovely, moist orange sponge topped with orange flavoured icing. Yum! - 06 May 2011