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Rooibos cake with orange glaze
easy
SERVES 1
Ingredients
Rooibos cake with orange glaze
- 225g unsalted butter, softened
- 225g Huletts castor sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1 orange, zested
- 1 Tbs rooibos powder
- 225g cake flour, sifted
- 2 tsp baking powder
Glaze:
- Juice of 1 orange
- 2 cups Huletts icing sugar, sifted
Method
- Preheat oven to 160 C
- Grease and line a 22cm loaf tin.
- Cream butter and sugar until pale.
- Beat in eggs, one at a time.
- Add orange zest and rooibos powder.
- Sift in the flour and baking powder and mix until just combines.
- Transfer batter to the loaf tin
- Bake for 45 minutes or until skewer inserted comes out clean.
- Remove from the tin and leave cake to cool completely.
- For the glaze, place icing sugar into a bowl, then slowly mix in enough orange juice until the mixture reaches the correct consistency.
- Pour glaze over the cooled cake.
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Conversion Table
Cups | Tablespoons | Grams | |
---|---|---|---|
Butter | 1/4 cup | 4 Tbsp | 57g |
1/3 cup | 5 Tbsp + 1 tsp | 76g | |
1 cup | 16 Tbsp | 227g | |
Flour/Sifted | 1/4 cup | 4 Tbsp | 30g/27g |
1/3 cup | 5 Tbsp + 1 tsp | 40g/35g | |
1/2 cup | 8 Tbsp | 60g/55g | |
1 cup | 16 Tbsp | 120g/110g | |
Granulated Sugar | 1/4 cup | 4 Tbsp | 50g |
1/3 cup | 5 Tbsp + 1 tsp | 65g | |
1/2 cup | 8 Tbsp | 100g | |
1 cup | 16 Tbsp | 200g | |
Brown Sugar/ Firmly Packed | 1/4 cup | 4 Tbsp | 45g |
1/3 cup | 5 Tbsp + 1 tsp | 60g | |
1/2 cup | 8 Tbsp | 90g | |
1 cup | 16 Tbsp | 180g | |
Water | 1/4 cup | 4 Tbsp | 57g |
1/3 cup | 5 Tbsp + 1 tsp | 76g | |
1/2 cup | 8 Tbsp | 114g | |
1 cup | 16 Tbsp | 227g |