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Orange Lightning Cake

Annabel Langbein

Ingredients 1 orange (unpeeled) 1 tsp Baking soda 125gms softened butter 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract 2 cups flour 1 cup sultanas or raisins 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional) Method Preheat oven to 160 deg C. Grease a 20cm diameter cake tin and line the base with baking paper. Cut the orange into quarters, remove the seeds and whizz in a food processor until finely chopped. Dissolve B soda in 1/2 cup water and add to the food processor with butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla and flour. Whizz to combine. Add sultanas or raisins, and walnuts if using, and stir with a spoon or pulse several times to just combine (don't whizz them or they will break up) Pour into prepared cake tin and bake until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. (about 1 hour) Orange lightening cake will keep in an airtight container for up to a week or can be frozen.

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