I was asked to make a pudding for ‘the workers’ today (I’ll tell more tomorrow) but the weather is stunningly gorgeous, all the doors and windows are open and I don’t want to go shopping, so the only thing to do is check out what’s in the cupboards and adapt a recipe to fit what I have in stock.
As this is therefore another of my, ‘slightly following a recipe but changing it quite a bit’ experiments, I’m recording it here so I can make it again. Assuming it works that is, it’s in the oven as I type this.
Cake Ingredients:
225g butter at room temp
225g caster sugar
4 eggs
250g self raising flour, sieved
Grated zest of 2 limes and 1/2 orange
Juice of 1/2 to 1 orange
a pinch of salt (I forgot to put in the pinch of salt, oops!)
200g raspberries (I had some in the freezer so took them out to de-frost while I started on the rest)
Drizzle Ingredients:
4 tablespoons lime juice
4 tablespoons orange juice, both freshly squeezed
Grated zest of 1 and half limes
140g golden caster sugar (I used granulated as I didn’t have golden caster)
Method:
Preheat oven to 180c or 160c (fan)
Line base and sides of a square 20cm cake tin in baking parchment and butter the paper
Cream together butter and sugar with a whisk on low setting until light and a little fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs (slowly so the mix doesn’t curdle). Add a spoonful of the sieved flour as you add the last of the eggs to help prevent curdling.
Gently whisk in the lime and orange zest, the rest of the flour (in small batches) and the orange juice.
Fold in around 3/4 of the raspberries and pour mixture into prepared tin. Smooth and scatter remaining raspberries on top. Bake for about 1 hour until firm.
For the drizzle: gently heat the lime juice, orange juice, zest and sugar in a saucepan until the sugar melts. Do not allow to bubble.
While cake is still hot, prick it all over with a skewer and spoon the syrup drizzle over it.
I’ll tell you what it tastes like tomorrow 🙂
Update on the taste: Yummy!
Fab recipe I’m going to try it, thanks for posting it….yum yum. Dx
Thanks Donnah. Actually it was really nice. 7 for picnic dinner all said so 🙂
Looks amazing!
Big fan of drizzle cake, but these days only allowed it as a rare treat 🙁
Had any rare treats lately?