Marrow & pecan cake with maple icing

Garden glut cake recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has sunflower oil, self-raising flour, mixed spice, baking powder, brown sugar, large egg, orange, marrow, pecan, butter, cream cheese and maple syrup.

Marrow & pecan cake with maple icing

Marrow & pecan cake with maple icing

Recipe by Chef Soomro Course: Garden glut cake
Servings

4 - 8

servings
Prep time

25 mins

Ingredients

  • Butter: 50g butter, softened
  • Brown Sugar: 250g light soft brown sugar
  • Sunflower Oil: 250ml sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
  • Orange: finely grated zest and juice 1 orange
  • Maple Syrup: 4 tbsp maple syrup
  • Self Raising Flour: 300g self-raising flour
  • Baking Powder: 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • Large Egg: 4 large eggs
  • Cream Cheese: 250g cream cheese
  • Mixed Spice: 3 tsp mixed spice
  • Pecan: 200g pecan, roughly chopped
  • Marrow: 300g marrow flesh, coarsely grated and squeezed of any liquid

Directions

  1. Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Grease and line a 22cm round springform cake tin with baking parchment. Sift the flour, spice and baking powder into a bowl and crumble in the sugar. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs with the orange zest and juice, then pour in the oil. Add the marrow and 150g of the pecans to the oil mixture, then beat into the flour until combined. Tip into the cake tin, smooth the top and bake for 1 hr 20 mins, or until a skewer comes out clean. Leave to cool for 30 mins in the tin before removing and placing on a wire rack to cool completely.
  2. While the cake is cooling, make the icing by beating all the ingredients together. When the cake has cooled, use a spatula to spread the icing over the top. Sprinkle over the rest of the pecans to decorate and serve.