Name: Shirley’s Orange Cake
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 220 g (1 cup) white sugar; 225 g (1½ cups) self-raising flour, sifted; pinch of salt; juice of ½ orange; ½ teaspoon vanilla essence; grated zest of 1 orange; 2 eggs; 125 g butter, softened; 15 g butter; 180 g (1½ cups) icing sugar mixture, sifted; 125 ml (½ cup) milk

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Australian Blue Ribbon Cookbook

By Liz Harfull

Published 2014

About

When Shirley Schilg died from ovarian cancer at the age of 44, it touched the small Riverina community of Walbundrie very deeply. So as soon as two of her daughters, Tammie Driscoll and Kimberly Schilg, announced their intentions to join a major fundraising effort for cancer research, the town got right behind them.

Putting the baking skills they had learnt from their mother to good use, Tammie