Orange cake

This is a very quick delicious orange cake that uses the whole orange blended with the batter. Pouring over an orange syrup is optional, you could use orange icing instead.

Ingredients:
200g Navel orange
175g unsalted butter at room temp
3 eggs
1 cup caster sugar
2 cups SR flour

Grease a baba tin.
Cut unpeeled orange into segments & process in food processor until fine. Add butter, sugar, eggs & flour. Process until combined. Pour into tin & bake in moderate oven (180 degrees) for 45 mins.

Stand cake for 5 minutes before turning onto rack to cool.

To make syrup: heat about 100mls orange juice with 1/4 cup caster sugar until reduced slightly, then cool for 5 mins. Pour syrup over warm cake.

If using icing: Combine 1 cup icing sugar with 2 tablespoons of orange juice & pour over cooled cake.