ORANGE CAKE RECIPE

• 1. All purpose flour – 2 ½ cup
• 2. Baking powder – 2 tsp
• 3. Salt – 1 tsp
• 4. Unsalted butter – 200 gram (at room temperature)
• 5. Sugar – 1 ¾ cup
• 6. Orange zest – 2 ½ tbsp (finely chopped)
• 7. Vanilla essence – ½ tsp
• 8. Egg - 3
• 9. Orange juice (freshly squeezed) – 1 cup
• 10. Chopped pistachios – ¼ cup (optional)

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degree. 

Grease a cake tin with butter and dust it with flour. Keep it ready.

In a bowl combine together all purpose flour, baking powder and salt and keep it aside. 

2. In another bowl, beat together butter and sugar till creamy. 

To this add orange zest and vanilla essence and combine evenly.

Add egg one by one to this and beat well. 

3. Add the flour mixture and orange juice alternatively to the butter – egg mixture little by little and beat till well combined. 

Add the chopped pistachios (reserve 1 tbsp to sprinkle on top) and just mix, pour this batter to the prepared cake tin and spread evenly. Sprinkle the remaining pistachios over the cake batter. 

4. Bake it in the preheated oven for about 1 hour or 1 hour 10 minutes, till a tooth pick inserted at the center of the cake comes out clean.

Remove it from the oven and leave it to cool for about 25 – 30 minutes at room temperature. 

Slowly remove the cake from the pan and cool it completely over a wire rack. Serve.