Rooibos cake with orange glaze

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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

  1. Preheat oven to 160 C
  2. Grease and line a 22cm loaf tin.
  3. Cream butter and sugar until pale.
  4. Beat in eggs, one at a time.
  5. Add orange zest and rooibos powder.
  6. Sift in the flour and baking powder and mix until just combines.
  7. Transfer batter to the loaf tin
  8. Bake for 45 minutes or until skewer inserted comes out clean.
  9. Remove from the tin and leave cake to cool completely.
  10. For the glaze, place icing sugar into a bowl, then slowly mix in enough orange juice until the mixture reaches the correct consistency.
  11. Pour glaze over the cooled cake.

Top tips

How do you keep the balance of your cake fresh?

Place a piece of bread on the exposed sides and use a toothpick to keep it in place.

Stop the flop

Some of the most common reasons cakes fall in the middle are: incorrect oven temperature, opening the oven door too early, underbaking the cake or incorrect measurement of ingredients.

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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