This easy one-bowl orange cake will become your go-to recipe when you’re in the mood for a simple tea cake with beautiful citrus flavour. Fragrant with orange zest, topped with orange icing and coconut, this easy orange cake is quick and utterly delicious.
Ingredients
Method
Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Grease a 20cm-round deep cake pan.
In a medium bowl beat butter, rind, caster sugar, eggs, flour and milk with an electric mixer at low speed until just combined. Increase speed to medium, beat about 3 minutes or until mixture is smooth.
Spread mixture into pan. Bake 40 minutes. Stand orange cake 5 minutes; turn, top-side up, onto wire rack to cool.
Combine sifted icing sugar and juice in small bowl; spread over cake, sprinkle with coconut.
Make this easy orange cake recipe in a loaf pan
You might also like to bake this cake in a loaf pan; line the pan base and bake the cake for about 50 minutes.
Alternatively, try one of these loaf cakes:
- Orange and passionfruit cake with passionfruit icing
- Orange raspberry loaf – this recipe is especially easy as it uses a packet of madeira cake mix
- Orange coconut cake with orange icing – this is a retro recipe from The Weekly archives
Key to a successful one-bowl cake recipe
When making any cake by the quick-mix, one-bowl method, you should start by having the butter, eggs and milk at room temperature, as these will combine better.
Flavour variations
For more beautiful bakes, see this collection of simple butter cakes and tea cakes, or our orange cake recipe collection.
