A fancy-pants orange cake

Considering how much i like to cover things in glitter and make edible jungle animals, you can understand how difficult i found it to step away from the brightly coloured buttercream and make a fancy orange cake fit for a lady.  The lady in question was my good pal Sophies Mum, and she wanted a simple orange cake with minimalist decoration.  Now, I am the first to admit that im not that great at the baking part of the whole cake making shabang and (heavily) rely on my tried and tested recipes to make sure things don't go tits up (to put it mildly). So making a cake like this was undoubtably going to be a challenge as it meant it had to taste amazing, since theres no covering it up with an extra blob of icing or strategically placed ribbon.  Challenge accepted.

 

1) an aerial view as it were 2) oopsie 3) caramelising my oranges like a boss 4) pretty gold leaf 5) the finished product 6) im getting good at this close up lark.

The recipe i used is BBC Good Food jobie and should you want to give it a go you can find it here.  To ensure maximum orange flavour i slice the cake into two halves and slapped some orange curd in between.  For the top i went a bit wild with my very tight budget and bought some gold leaf as a simple and classy finishing touch, and i think the gold colour compliments the orange perfectly. I like the based of the cake where it meets the board to look clean cut and neat so i added a little orange ribbon, just to tidy it up a bit. 


I absolutely adore how it turned out and it just goes to show that simple doesnt mean boring.

Once again thank you for reading and have a lovely day,

Louise