New Year Special - Eggless Orange Cake

      Wishing all the people who have given me so much encouragement for this blog a very happy and prosperous new year. What can be better option than to welcome the new year with a beautiful cake. Hence here I am posting Eggless Orange Cake recipe.

Ingredients:

Maida (All purpose flour) - 1 cup
Butter - 1/4 cup
Powdered Sugar - 1/2 cup
Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp
Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp
Orange Juice - 3/4 cup
Orange zest - 1 tsp
Orange Essence - 1/2 tsp
Tutti frutti - 1/2 cup
Salt - 1 pinch
Corn flour - 1 tsp

For Icing:

Cream Powder - 1 cup
Water - 1 cup
Orange food colour - 1 pinch
Chocolate powder - 2 tsp

Method:

Pre heat the oven or microwave to 180 degrees centigrade.

Sieve all the dry ingredients together like Maida, baking powder and soda and cornflour.

Beat the butter and sugar together. Add the orange juice and essence and mix well. Now add the dry ingredients, orange zest and salt and mix well. Also add the tutti frutti to it.

Add little water to get it to the cake batter consistency. 

Bake in the oven for around 15 mins approx. This might vary with your microwave settings.

Insert a knife and check if it comes out clean. Remove the cake and allow it to cool down.

For the icing, mix cream powder and water together and whisk till it becomes fluffy. Keep aside a small quantity of the cream. Add chocolate powder to it and mix well. This is to get the brown colour. 

For the rest of the cream, add the orange food colour. I have used to colour shades for this.

Decorate the cake the way you like it. Enjoy baking.. :)