Orange Cake

 

I made this sometime in Aug 2012? BUT I forgot where I got the recipe from!! From a mag?? All I know is that it was very simple, like you can just refer here.. similar ingredients, just that I did not add the icing..

 

http://www.kidspot.com.au/best-recipes/Cakes-and-Baking+20/Orange-cake-recipe+1488.htm

Ingredients:

• 125g butter, softened
• 1 cup caster sugar
• Zest and juice of an orange
• 3 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 cups self-raising flour
• ¼ cup milk

Icing

• 1½ cups icing sugar
• 1 tbsp orange juice

 

 

Method:

Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease and line a 20cm square or round cake tin.
Place all ingredients in a mixing bowl and beat on low speed until just combined.
Increase speed and beat until smooth.
Pour into prepared tin and bake for 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
Allow cake to cool for 5 minutes in the tin and then turn out onto a cake tray to cool.
To make the icing, combine icing sugar and enough orange juice to make a smooth paste.
Spread icing onto cold cake.




It was pretty nice! :) Took sometime to bake though..

Cabbage RIce

Yipee! Made my successful cabbage rice.. hehe, was looking at this recipe from  http://www.noobcook.com/cabbage-rice/ but I did not follow exactly. Wanted to add shrimps but my mum forgot to bring. Mainly, I put garlic, cabbage, carrot, pork belly. cook them together with seasoning like oyster sauce, sugar salt and pepper. I added rice, added an egg, mix well and put everything into the rice cooker to cook. Yup and it turned out rather good! :)

I did enjoy cooking actually. I wish I had more time to cook.

On a sidenote, I also made cabbage tomato soup recently but did not take any pic of it. It was very simple.. adding the pasta sauce, cabbage, meatballs and all mix in the rice cooker. Had to add cornflour to thicken it. Can eat that for a few days! :)