Orange blossom cakes

Orange blossom cakes

Bake these zesty little cakes in a snowflake mould and dust with icing sugar for a festive feel

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Makes 10

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 25 mins

Cook time

Cook 30 mins

Freezable

Can be frozen before dusting

Method

  1. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Line 10 holes of a muffin tin with cases (or grease some individual cake moulds). Beat the butter, flour, sugar, baking powder, eggs, yogurt, zest and 2 tbsp orange blossom water in a large bowl with an electric whisk until lump-free. Spoon into the cases (or fill cake moulds three-quarters full), and bake for 18-22 mins until golden and risen - a skewer poked in should come out clean (check cake moulds after 15 mins).
  2. Drizzle with remaining orange blossom water while warm, then cool. Dust with icing sugar to serve.

PER SERVING

290 kcalories, protein 4g, carbohydrate 33g, fat 16 g, saturated fat 10g, fibre 1g, sugar 19g, salt 0.5 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, January 2011.

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  • 01 December 2010

    Annie19 commented on this recipe

    looks lovely, cannot wait to make

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  • 01 December 2010

    Emily S commented on this recipe

    Where can I buy a snowflake mould?

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  • 01 December 2010

    La Cheshire Chat commented on this recipe

    Lakeland have Snowflake moulds, or try eBay, HUGE assortment!

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  • 01 December 2010

    glorious commented on this recipe

    I seen some moulds like these in lydl yesterday for 3.99 think i will go back for them now :-)

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  • 01 December 2010

    honeybee commented on this recipe

    These are in the oven now, but I am not that hopeful. The mixture was a batter consistency rather than sponge mixture. Used muffin tins as these were here and wanted a trial run, filled 18 with mix.

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  • 01 December 2010

    honeybee rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Actually, they've turned out ok! Golden with a slightly crisp outside.

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  • 04 December 2010

    Geri commented on this recipe

    I have just bought the snowflake moulds from Lakeland, but the instructions say "not suitable for cake making". Has anyone else used them? I am sure I read a post from BBC Good Food that stipulated they used the very same moulds but the post seems to have disappeared.

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  • 04 December 2010

    Geri commented on this recipe

    I wish I'd gone to the Facebook page before I started making the cakes, which is where I saw the reference to Lakeland moulds that encouraged me to go out and buy them. Having read the instructions on the pack I bought I abandoned them in favour of muffin cases for fear of destroying my oven, only to read, once the cakes were out, that I could indeed have used the moulds up to a temp of 180. Would have been handy if both Lakeland and this website could have stipulated that at the start. I'm sure these cakes are nice but the kids are disappointed they're not snowflake shaped. Oh, well, next time.

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  • 04 December 2010

    rebecca commented on this recipe

    hi in the magazine is does state this xx

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  • 04 December 2010

    Sarah commented on this recipe

    Dear All We did test the Lakeland mould up to 180oC, however if you want a thicker silicone mould that is almost identical in design this is a good one to try - http://www.siliconemoulds.com/snowflake-silicone-cake-mould-p-152.html as it goes up to 260oC - hope this helps Sarah

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  • 16 December 2010

    purpledragon rated and commented on this recipe

    1 stars

    Hi Lakeland mould worked perfectly at 180C - first time I have got silicone to work, lovely little snow flakes. But the flavour is not nice, used the Orange Blossom water from M&S and they taste of chemicals. Really disappointed as I have been waiting a week to make them as I had to wait for the mould to come into my local lakeland and find a source for the orange flower water. Think the extra bottles I bought to make these as Xmas gifts will be going back the M&S. Might keep the mould but find a different mixture to cook in them. Purpledragon

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  • 21 December 2010

    hstanton commented on this recipe

    THe recipe in Jan 2011 Good Food mag states they used the Lakeland mould to make these cakes. Am sure have seen a recipe using a friand recipe but can't remember where now. I will be using juice of lemon as hate flowery orange flavours.

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  • 22 December 2010

    SueB commented on this recipe

    I bought the Lakeland snowflake mould,I used vaniila extract and not the zest and orange Blossom,They were delicious and looked just like those in the picture !!

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  • 22 December 2010

    SueB rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Sorry forgot to rate

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  • 24 December 2010

    SueB commented on this recipe

    This mould is now half price in Lakeland !!!

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  • 21 February 2011

    Sarah-Jane Nash commented on this recipe

    Lemon friand recipe and photos are mine and can be found here : http://siliconemoulds.blogspot.com/2010/07/raspberry-lemon-friands.html

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Makes 10

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 25 mins

Cook time

Cook 30 mins

Freezable

Can be frozen before dusting

Ingredients

  • 120g softened butter , plus extra for greasing
  • 140g self-raising flour
  • 120g golden caster sugar
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ x 150ml pot natural yogurt
  • zest 1 clementine
  • 3 tbsp orange blossom water
  • icing sugar , to dust
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PER SERVING

290 kcalories, protein 4g, carbohydrate 33g, fat 16 g, saturated fat 10g, fibre 1g, sugar 19g, salt 0.5 g

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