Leftovers recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 30 mins; recipe has butter, sultana, orange, self-raising flour, brown sugar, mixed spice, ground ginger, bicarbonate of soda, egg, swede, icing sugar and sugar cube.
Leftover veg & orange cake
Course: Leftovers
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
40 mins
Ingredients
- Egg: 4 large eggs, beaten with a fork
- Butter: 200g butter, melted, plus extra for greasing
- Brown Sugar: 300g light soft brown sugar
- Orange: zest and juice 2 oranges, or 4 clementines
- Bicarbonate Of Soda: 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- Self Raising Flour: 300g self-raising flour
- Sultana: 140g sultana or raisins
- Mixed Spice: 2 tsp mixed spice
- Ground Ginger: 1 tsp ground ginger
- Icing Sugar: 200g icing sugar or fondant icing sugar
- Swede: 300g carrots, parsnips, pumpkin, butternut squash or swede, or a mixture, grated
- Sugar Cube: few crushed white sugar cubes
Directions
- Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease and line a 30 x 20cm baking or roasting tin with baking parchment. Mix the sultanas and zest and juice from 1 orange (or 2 clementines), and microwave on High for 2 mins.
- Mix the flour, caster sugar, spices, bicarb and pinch of salt into a large bowl. Mix the eggs with the melted butter and sultana mixture, then tip into the dry ingredients and stir in with a wooden spoon. Stir in the grated veg, and scrape into the tin. Bake for 35 - 40 mins, or until a skewer poked in the centre comes out clean. Cool in the tin.
- Once cool sift the icing sugar into a bowl and stir in remaining orange zest plus enough juice to make a runny icing. Drizzle all over the cake and scatter with the crushed sugar cubes. Leave to set, then slice into 15 squares to serve.
