Appelsínukaka

Orange cake

I baked this orange cake for us on Easter Sunday for a cozy Easter coffee hour. Such a nice, quick recipe for a fruity sponge cake that also brings a bit of color into the still light brown Icelandic spring, which I was able to quickly prepare in the morning...

My youngest in particular, who isn't really much of a cake fan, was really excited and even wanted seconds!

Ingredients

100 g soft margarine

100 g sugar

1 egg

1/2 organic orange

125 g flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

1 pinch of salt

200 g powdered sugar

40 g soft margarine

1/2 organic orange

thin orange slices for decoration

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C) upper/lower heat.

In a large bowl, whisk margarine, sugar and egg until fluffy.

Wash the orange and cut it in half. Cut 8 slices as thin as possible for later decoration. Grate some of the peel from one half of the orange and squeeze out this half and add the orange juice and the grated orange peel to the bowl.

Add more flour, baking powder and salt and mix everything into a smooth dough.

Line a springform pan with baking paper, pour the dough into it...

... and let it bake in a preheated oven at 350 °F (180 °C) upper and lower heat for about 30 minutes (test with a toothpick!).

Take the cake out of the oven and let it cool thoroughly.

For the cream, put the powdered sugar with the soft margarine in a smaller bowl, squeeze the second half of an orange and grate some of the peel and then mix everything together...

... and spread the mixture over the cooled cake.

Decorate with the orange slices/carves, cut as thinly as possible.

Let the cake set and set in the fridge for at least 2 hours - and then serve!

We were even lucky enough to be able to have our Easter coffee hour on the terrace in the wonderful sunshine in the afternoon! However, despite the sun, it was still a bit cool, so we went back into the house after we had finished eating! But it was nice to sit outside like that!

[Translated from here.]