Courgette and Orange Cake
Ingredients
3 large eggs
300g (10½ oz) caster sugar
100ml (3½ fl oz) corn or vegetable oil
85g (3 oz) English crème fraîche
300g (10½ oz) plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
½tsp salt
1½tsp mixed spice
Zest of 1 orange
75g (2½ oz) chopped hazelnuts
225g (8 oz) courgettes, grated with their skin on Icing:
55g (2 oz) butter, melted
2-3 tbsp orange juice
2 tsp grated orange zest
225g (8 oz) icing sugar
Cuts into 16, or 20 smaller pieces
Method
1. Whisk the eggs with the sugar until thick, whisk in the oil and crème fraîche. Sieve the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, salt and mixed spice; mix in orange rind and chopped hazelnuts. Fold the flour mixture into the eggs with the grated courgettes. Pour the mixture into the tin.
2. Place the tin on the grid shelf set on the floor of the Baking Oven. Bake for about 45-50 minutes until golden and cooked.
Notes - 1 x AGA square spring form tin, base lined and buttered Allow to cool for 5 minutes in the tin, then turn out and cool completely. To make the icing; melt the butter in a bowl on the AGA. Add the remaining ingredients to the butter, beat together well and spread on the cake, the icing thickens on cooling. Mark a pattern with a palette knife. Allow the icing to set.