This absolutely delicious Orange cake is a dairy free version of Michelle's Orange Cake with a few simple modifications. It is a very easy cake to make and is deliciously moist. When my husband has to take a cake into work this cake is requested by his work colleagues (they are not on a gluten free diet). I hope you enjoy it as much as my friends & family do. 

This recipe was designed specifically to be made with Bakers' Magic gluten free flour. The finished baked product will not be the same if you use another gluten free flour and you will need to adjust the recipe, particularly if the flour you're using contains rice flour.

Ingredients

Cake

240 g Navel orange flesh + Zest

200 g Bakers' Magic Gluten free flour

35 g Potato starch

1/4 tsp Salt

1 tsp Baking powder

1/2 tsp Bicarb of soda

225 g Caster sugar

36 g Cocoabutter

164 g Nuttelex (or other dairy free margarine)

3 Eggs

 

Oranges - you will need nearly 2 oranges for the cake.

Maize starch = Cornflour from maize/corn and potato starch is sometimes labelled as potato flour. For more information go to Maize starch vs Cornflour. 

Cocoabutter - I mix in cocoabutter with the Nuttelex to make a substitute for butter. Some brands are better than others, some will have a strong smell of chocolate - An orange chocolate cake would be quite nice :). If you can't get cocobutter add in 200 g of Nuttelex or other dairy free margarine & decrease the amount of orange used to 220 g. 

    

Orange Icing

300 g Icing sugar

Zest of 1.5 oranges

25 g Orange juice

80 g of Nuttelex

 

Method

Grease a cake ring tin.

Turn the oven on to 170 C.

Zest the oranges. 

Cut off the pith & segment the orange.  

Thermomix

Melt Nuttelex & cocoabutter for 2 mins at 60 C speed 4.

Add in the zest & segmented orange & blend for 45 sec at speed 6. Blend again if you still have chunks of orange.

Add the eggs & sugar to the TM bowl & mix for 20 secs speed 5.

Mix in the dry ingredients for 5 secs speed 4, scrape down the sides & then repeat.

Let it sit for 1 min before pouring into the ring tin.  

Food Processor

Mix together the Bakers' Magic Gluten free flour, potato starch, salt, bicarb & baking powder.

Cut up the orange & put it in the bowl of the food processor. Process until you have a fine mush.

Melt the cocoabutter & Nuttelex & pour it in while the processor is still on. Mix in the eggs & caster sugar.

Add in the remaining dry ingredients & process briefly until the batter is uniform.

Let it sit for 1 min before pouring into the ring tin. 

Both

Pour cake batter into the ring tin & bake for ~30 - 35 mins. The time will depend on the size of the orange & your oven.

Bring out of the oven & wait 5 mins before turning out the cake.

Icing

Get any lumps out of the icing sugar. I usually blitz it in a food processor first.

Melt the Nuttelex, mix in the orange juice & zest.

In a food processor or mixing bowl combine all ingredients until the icing is the consistency that you like. If the icing is too hard to spread warm it up a little either by microwaving for a couple of seconds or putting the bowl over some hot water. 

Pour the icing over the cake. Allow the cake to cool & the icing to set before cutting in to it.

Simply enjoy!