Mother’s Day cake

Name: Mother’s Day cake
Ingredients: 200 g/7 oz/scant 1 cup butter, softened, plus extra for greasing; 2 small oranges; 100 g/3¾ oz/scant 1 cup toasted flaked (sliced) almonds; 4 eggs, beaten; 200 g/7 oz/1 cup soft light brown sugar; 175 g/6 oz/1½ cups self-raising (self-rising) flour; 5 ml/1 tsp vanilla extract; 5 ml/1 tbsp orange liqueur (optional); 40 g/1¾ oz/generous ¼ cup natural icing (confectioners’) sugar, plus extra dusting; 675 g/1½ lb sugarpaste; ½ quantity buttercream icing

Preparation info

Serves
12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cakes

By Ann Nicol

Published 2014

About

Almonds, orange and vanilla give this special cake its distinctive flavour, which can be further enhanced by drizzling over a little orange liqueur.

Ingredients

200 g/7 oz/scant 1 cup butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
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Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Grease and line a 20cm/8in round springform cake tin (pan) with baking parchment.
Peel the oranges in strips, then put in a food processor. Process for a few seconds until the peel forms a fine powder, then put in