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Orange Gugelhupf

Ingredients

  • 375 g butter
  • 300 g white sugar
  • 70 g brown sugar
  • 22.5 vanilla sugar
  • pinch salt
  • 6 eggs
  • zest 1 orange
  • juice of 1 orange
  • 459 g plain flour
  • 22.5 g baking powder
  • For the icing
  • 120 g icing sugar
  • 1 tbsp water
  • 1 tbsp orange juice

Instructions

  • Grease the gugelhupf tin and preheat the oven to 160C, Gas Mark 3
  • Cream together the butter and sugar.
  • Mix in the eggs one at a time.
  • Zest the orange and squeeze out the juice.
  • Add half the orange zest to the mixture with the flour and baking powder.
  • Mix together and add the orange juice.
  • Place the mixture in the gugehupf tin and bake for 75 - 90 minutes until a skewer comes out clean.
  • Leave to cool for ten minutes in tin then remove.
  • Mix the icing sugar with the water and orange juice and drizzle over the cake.
  • Use the remaining orange zest to decorate.