Easy Orange Cake Recipe

on December 19, 2023

Orange Cake

Orange Cake (Portakalı Kek) Recipe

Do you like combination of sour and sweet? Do you like tea with cake? We love the combination of sour and sweet. Lemon cake and orange cakes are our favourite sweet and we consume these cakes with 5:00 pm tea-breaks alot in winter times and other seasons.

Orange season is just begining here. Our markets and green grocerries are really turn to orange color. We love orange color and time is really to make a very tasty and quite practical orange cake. This cake's recipe comes from our very close friend who lives in Antalya city. Antalya city is a very touristic city and you can find orange and mandarin trees every corner of the city.

Actually we got alot of citrus dessert recipes from friend of us. But our kids wanted the orange cake one more than the others. So that we made this amazing cake to our house holds and are going to share its recipe with you in this post.

Best Orange Cake

How to Make Orange Cake (Portakalı Kek)!

Every time we think let's have a cake but let's make it quick and delicious, a cake so puffy that everyone will want another slice and another slice, we whip up this recipe. It is Orange cake recipe.

Yes, in this post , we are going to share our very delicious orange cake with you. We are sure that when you try this delicious recipe, you like it. Its preparation is really super easy and its recipe is not complicated.

Recipe for Orange Cake (Portakalı Kek)!

We love eating this cake with apricot or sour cherry or cranberry marmalades. All options go well with this cake. Most cakes are best served at room temperature, unless they have a custard or whipped cream component.

Here it is orange cake's (Portakalı Kek) recipe;

Serve: 8-10 servings, Preparation Time: 20 minutes, Cooking Time: 40 minutes, Cuisine: Mediterranean / Anatolian Cuisines,

Very good family favourite;

Ingreduents: 3 Normal size fresh orange,

Ingredients: 3 Eggs,

Ingredients: 150 or 170 gr granulated sugar,

Ingredients: 100 or 150 ml whole milk,

Ingredients: 1/2 Cup of sunflower oil,

Ingredients: 1 Tablespoon of butter,
(for greasing the cake mold ),

Ingredients: 2 Cups of all porpuse flour,

Ingredients: 1 Teaspoon of baking powder,

Ingredients: 1 Teaspoon of vanilla,

Utensils : A baking pan or cake mold,

Firstly grate your orange's skin into a bowl and set aside,

And squeeze the all oranges to get the juice and set aside,

Then put eggs and sugar in a bowl,

And use an electric mixer to beat the eggs
and sugar very well until it becomes creamy
and the sugar is totally melted,

Then add the milk, sunflower oil, orange juice and
grated orange peel and
continue beating for a couple of minutes,

Meanwhile , sift your flour through a sieve to avoid lumps,

Then add vanilins, baking powder and
flour into the liquid mixture.
And use the lowest level of mixer and
do not beat for a long time,

Then by the help of brush or with your hand
to grease cake mold with a little butter,

Then pour the cake mixture on the prepared cake mold,

Preheat the oven to 180°C (356°F) and
put it in the preheated oven,

And bake it until golden brown on top,

Baking process takes nearly 40 mins, then remove it
from the oven and let it sit in the pan
for 30 mins to cool down,

A Piece of orange cake and a cup of tea or
coffee makes you happy. ENJOY!

Ingredients:

3 Normal size fresh orange, (2 for the Juice, 1 for the peels),
3 Eggs,
150 or 170 gr granulated sugar, (nearly a cup of sugar),
100 or 150 ml whole milk, (nearly 1/2 cup of milk),
1/2 Cup of sunflower oil,
1 Tablespoon of butter, (for greasing the baking pan/cake mold),
2 Cups of all porpuse flour, (nearly 400 gr), (Sift the flour through a sieve to avoid lumps),
1 Teaspoon of baking powder, (nearly 10 gr),
1 Teaspoons of vanilla, (nearly 10 gr),

Utensils;

A baking pan or cake mold,

Preparation:

First of all, put your all ingredients on the work table. Then grate your orange's skin into a bowl (remove wide strips of zest from the orange with a vegetable peeler/grater and do not remove the pith) and squeeze the all oranges to get the juice and set aside.
Then, put eggs and sugar in a bowl and use an electric mixer to beat the eggs and sugar very well until it becomes creamy and the sugar is totally melted. Then add the milk, sunflower oil, orange juice and grated orange peel and continue beating for a couple of minutes.
Meanwhile, sift your flour through a sieve to avoid lumps. Then add vanilins, baking powder and flour into the liquid mixture. At this point use the lowest level of your mixer and do not beat for a long time. It is done as soon as the flour is absorbed homogeneously in the liquid.
Then, by the help of brush or with your hand to grease baking pan or cake mold with a little butter and then pour the cake mixture on the prepared baking pan or cake mold and preheat your oven to 180°C (356 °F) and put it in the preheated oven.
And bake your cake at 180°C (356 °F) until golden brown on top or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. This process takes nearly 40 minutes. Then remove it from the oven and let it sit in the pan for 30 minutes to cool down. Then flip it over onto a cooling rack or serving plate.

Enjoy!