Gâteau à l’Orange … Orange you glad I made this?
Tweeting always has sweet surprises on the deck! The wonderful and talented SaffronBerry girl, found this orange cake when the Persian in her became obesessed about finding an orange cake recipe. As she said, “You’ll know we’re a bit obsessive and weird about our citrus fruit. We hoard it, display it, eat it, drink it, preserve it, dry it, cook it, and I’m sure we’d bake it too if there were a tradition like that of Western baking in Iran, heck we’d probably wear oranges and lemons if we could find a way to.“
I absolutely adored the way she summed up her citrus emotions, and now I think I might have some Persian DNA in my blood too. I too am very obsessive about citrus everything, and currently have a jar of tangerines and limes being preserved out of an Ottolenghi recipe! Recently made a load of Bitter Orange Marmalade, Dried Apricot, Pistachio and Orange Biscotti and Orange Pastry Cream Tartlets with Candied Tangerines (last 2 recipes yet to be posted).
It’s a wonderful recipe and I will be making it again soon. Served a few slices with homemade fresh mascarpone. It was drooliciously good both ways. Was happy to have an opportunity to use my oven dried orange slices for the top…tee hee! Even sprinkled some orange sugar on top right after pouring the juice.
4 oranges
Zest of 1 orange
100 g of softened butter
100 g sugar
150 g flour
3 eggs, separated
11/2 tsp baking powder
1 Tbsp rhum
1 Tbsp orange essence (or Cointreau)
1 pinch of salt
Butter (to grease the pan)
Method:
Heat the oven to 170C.
Deeba @ PAB
About me: I am a freelance food writer, recipe developer and photographer. Food is my passion - baking, cooking, developing recipes, making recipes healthier, using fresh seasonal produce and local products, keeping a check on my carbon footprint and being a responsible foodie! I enjoy food styling, food photography, recipe development and product reviews. I express this through my food photographs which I style and the recipes I blog. My strength lies in 'Doing Food From Scratch'; it must taste as good as it looks, and be healthy too. Baking in India, often my biggest challenge is the non-availability of baking ingredients, and this has now become a platform to get creative on. I enjoy cooking immensely as well.
46 Comments
annielicious14
Ok am sold! it looks and sounds delicious!
Tangled Noodle
Vindee, I am ALWAYS glad when you bake. Marvelous, marvelous, marvelous, gateau! It is a wintry grey day in Minnesota but your photos are really like rays of light! How did you do the outlines in the last picture? It's a great effect!
The Cooking Ninja
What a beautiful and delicious cake! I love the smell of butter and orange together. Since you love orange, you might also like this Orange-Coconut Cake too. 🙂
Happy Cook
I love love ornage cakes too. There is something very comforting in them. And this one looks so so yumm.
I love your idea of making your own orange sugar.
Mireya
This cake looks so moist! I could eat it up right now!
Sarah, Maison Cupcake
That sounds heavenly, I love orange flavoured things. Your pictures as ever are beautiful. I wish they sold oranges with the leaves on here but you only see them occasionally with clementines near Christmas.
MeetaK
oh my this is a heavenly delight! deeba i am so making this. i have a lovely orange cake from my mum's recipe on the blog and love it so much that every time i think orange i go for that. but i need to try this.
Bethany (Dirty Kitchen Secrets)
the best orange cake i've ever seen! Going to make this. x
Jamie
Oh Deeba, this is simply gorgeous and I can't wait to make it. I'm a Florida girl at heart and, like Persians, we grew up suffused with citrus. This cake is perfect! Gorgeous photos.
Mowielicious
Fabulous Deeba. Such a great idea of drizzling orange juice over it – must try that! I was going to do something similar with an orange syrup for my muffcakes, but I opted for lemon icing instead. Definitely trying this recipe though – yummo!
Rosa's Yummy Yums
A fabulous cake! It looks divine. Gorgeous shots too!
Cheers,
Rosa
Su-yin
I love the gorgeous orange-ness! 🙂 And I think it was brilliant of you to pour orange juice on the cake – must have made it even more orangey. I can imagine how good this would taste with some mascarpone… mmm.
Asha @ FSK
Oh dear GOD!! I am speechless!!! and that's saying something ..I am hardly ever devoid of it :DD
It's stunning.. and now I know y the hub loves lemons!!!! DUH!
Winnie
This is a really gorgeous cake! Thanks for sharing your lovely recipe and photos.
Mimi
Beautiful cake. In California it is citrus season and being a local girl, I adore citrus of any kind. I love the idea of orange sugar and as soon as it stops raining I'm going to pick some oranges and get to work.
Mimi
Kathleen
This sounds so lovely! Your photos are beautiful! Love your blog!
Coffee and Vanilla
Deeba, I love everything about this cake and images are just stunning!! 🙂
Have a good day, Margot
foodie ffanatic
Ooooh, Thank you, Deeba! For the luscious, scrumptious, gorgeous cake AND for the orange/vanilla sugar instructions! I think the sugar would be really good in a cup of Constant Comment tea along with a slice of this cake. Your photographs are absolutely stunning ~ but when aren't they? I've made orange quick breads, but not cake. This recipe sounds simply delectable. *hugs* Dani
Gloria
Deeba I love this!!!!! Look absolutely nice and delicious!! lovely pics, gloria
Arwen from Hoglet K
I love the way you've worked in so many orange elements into one recipe! The orange sugar sounds great.
Barbara Bakes
I love citrus desserts too and this one looks fabulous! Another gorgeous post! I often brag about having a friend in India and your delicious blog!
Twinsy Rachel
My my my!!!! am completely bowled over by this gauteau!!! what a knockout cake… some times eyes wanna get appealed before mouth tastes the food n this is in such a category.. surely a thing of beauty.. n of course that speaks volume about ur photography skill.. u r really talented Deeba…. God bless…Gonna make this over the weekend. By the way, can i do it without rhum?
Rgds
Twinsy
bake in paris
Simply the right choice for the current orange season in Thailand! Gateau a l'Orange will be a knockout of my January baking!
Thanks for sharing!
Sawadee from bangkok,
Kris
Hilda
It's gorgeous Deeba, simply grand. I'm about to post mine as well but I left it plain Jane, I'll tell readers the gussied up version is on your blog. =) And regarding the size, it can definitely be a very flat cake, so you can do it in an 8" springform. Mine is usually about an inch and a half high so it's not a high kind of cake. Love me some oranges. 😉
lisaiscooking
It's such a pretty cake! I love citrus, and I have a lot of it in my house right now. This looks like a perfect use for some of it!
Heavenly Housewife
What a beautiful cake, you presented it so lovely! I would love some of this. HOw about of slice of this for a slice of my clementine cake???
Have a wonderful weekend daaaahling.
*kisses* HH
Bellini Valli
This is such a synny and cheerful cake for our wintry weather Deeba.
Natashya KitchenPuppies
Beautiful! Your photos are stunning and so full of life! Orange is my favourite colour too. My KA is tangerine orange and makes me very happy.
Delicious gateau!
The Food Librarian
Beautiful!!! I just want to have a piece right now!! – mary
Barbara
Marvelous recipe, Deeba! So moist and so sunny looking! (Think I will add the Cointreau!)
Great job with the photos!
noble pig
It's so beautiful and that sugar, what an idea!!!!
Helene
Oh my Deeba, this is a marvelous cake.
sarah
Wow–this looks so refreshing and tasty. I am intrigued. We have been getting some really juicy oranges in our veg box lately, so I could maybe make this next week. Thanks for the idea!
shayma
it's beautiful deeba and your 'art direction' in this post is gorgeous. i love all the photography. the idea of making an orange zest flavoured sugar is great, it could also be a nice gift. i love this post. x shayma
ps the adapted from here link isnt working.
Cam de la Ron
Hi Deeba, this cake looks so nice. This is exactly the type of thing I love with some hot tea. I have little oranges like that growing in my neighborhood. I just noticed a nice lemon cake on another blog, so now I have to choose (yikes)! I might have to go with yours due to the abundance of oranges hanging from the trees… Thanks, Cam
Anonymous
Oh this looks very pretty, you can almost smell and taste.It seems like it would be a great dessert with all the seafood recipes I have come across lately. You always have a great variety of recipes. I really enjoy your blog.
Erika
Avanika [YumsiliciousBakes]
Oh D, this cake looks like pure heaven!! You're the best 🙂
Cakelaw
What a beautiful cake Deeba! Perfection itself, and the photos are just gorgeous.
Chocolate Shavings
I just posted an orange cake recipe too! I love the taste of citrus in cakes and yours looks just beautiful! http://ourchocolateshavings.blogspot.com/2010/01/orange-infused-cake-with-candied.html
Rajani@eatwritethink
deeba the cake looks delicious! and the season is perfect for some oranges in everything:)
lostpastremembered
This is one gorgeous cake… it really brightened up a cold rainy day to see those lovely photos… and orange cake… perfect!
Jeanne @ Cooksister!
Whoops, thats another SHF I missed 🙁 Oh well… Love this cake – citrus fruit are my favourite. I am totally in love with your citrus sugar – such a simple and clever idea 🙂
Kate
Ooo, I love your orange cake! Thanks for entering SHF 🙂
s
I made this…it was super delicious!!! thanks a ton….ive posted it too….
Taz
I made this the other day and I just wanted to say it was delicious! Thanks for the recipe!
Sarika Gulati
Hi Deeba,
I m really loving your cakes recipes.cooking food is my passion. I love baking n I love presenting my food. I really appreciate people who are passionate about cooking.
Thanks
Sarika Gulati