Ingredients:

• 190g butter, softened
• 1 cup castor sugar
• zest from one orange
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 3 eggs
• 2 cups plain flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ cup coconut flakes (or dessicated)
• 3 tablespoons milk
• 2 oranges

Method:

1. Grease a 6” cake tin and put to one side.
2. Preheat oven to 180ºC.
3. In a mixing bowl, beat butter, sugar and orange zest until pale in colour (approx 5 min).
4. Add vanilla essence then one egg at a time, beating between each egg until well mixed.
5. Sift flour and baking powder together then fold in all dry ingredients followed by the milk.
6. Put mixture into the cake tin then place orange slices from one of the oranges on top of cake.
7. Bake cake in the oven for one hour or until cake is firm and golden.
8. Remove from oven and squeeze juice of last orange over the top while cake is still warm.
9. Leave to cool then store in an airtight container.

Notes:

• This is a quick and relatively simple cake to make. You can swap the orange for lemons or grate in some apple for some added flavour.
• I leave it out of the fridge for best results.