An extremely refreshing, light fruit cake which is low fat too, only about a half cup oil is used for 2 cakes ,so that makes it 1/4 cup per cake!, the best part is that it is so quick- no elaborate beating ,folding, just dump everything into one large bowl it is ready to go into the oven!!
Fresh Orangey~Fruit Cake
Ingredients-
(makes 2 cakes)
- Orange juice- 1/2 cup
- Milk- 1/2 cup
- Flour- 2 cups
- Baking powder-3 tsp
- Candied mixed fruit- 1 cup
- Orange rind, grated- 1 tsp.
- Salt- 1/2 tsp
- Eggs- 3
- Sugar- 1 1/2 cups
- Vegetable oil- 1/2 cup
- 1 orange, cut into segments
For the fat-free glaze-
Combine half cup fresh orange juice with 2 tbsp sugar and 2 tsp cornflour, boil till it thickens, let cool .
Method-
Combine everything together in a large bowl and stir well, pour into prepared pans and bake for 45 mins at 180 deg.C .Drizzle glaze over cooled cake and decorate with orange segments. I am sending this one to Zlamushka for her spoonful of christmas event-http://www.burntmouth.com/2007/10/spoonful-of-christmas.html
Lot of Orange recipes this week in most blogs. Looks great and I know how wonderful Orange tastes and smells in desserts! Looks yum!:))
ReplyDeletewowwwwwww looks refreshing with oranges and that too low fatt yummy yummy bindya
ReplyDeleteBindiya, that cake looks so good. To boot it is low fat healthy!! thanks for sharing, I am trying this at the next op'ty
ReplyDeleteHey Hey, lovely :-)
ReplyDeletewhat a cake I see here... And ALL for me (blushing happily). I am going to be one big piece of a woman with you soon :-) Looks fab. If I was there right now, I would pick out those orange wedges carefully, while you re not looking ;-)
A nice post Bindiya! I never could develop a taste fr lemon cake, but I think oranges might just work, esp when you have that "low-fat" tag next to it:)
ReplyDeleteNice post Bindiya. Thanks for the wishes. Hope to recover soon. :)
ReplyDeleteWow a low fat cake is always welcomed. One can have double the portion :-)))
ReplyDeleteWith oranges it must have tasted great
bindiya, i love orange cake... yours is easy to prepare and low fat too!
ReplyDeleteThis looks awesome, I'm definitely going to try it :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Bindiya!
asha-yeah i know,i saw quite a few myself.
ReplyDeletesagari-thx dear
saju-do try it and let me know
zlamushka-u r always welcome.
mansi-yeah low fat is great!
ujju-thx and do get well soon
happy, lissie and kaykat- do try out this lovely ,luscious cake and let me know.
what a lovely recipe!!! thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteNice recipe...... too love fruit cake cookies from Wisconsin Cheeseman.
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