Name: Lemon & orange cake
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: Cuts into 10 slices
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 250g pack butter softened; 250g golden caster sugar; 4 eggs; 250g gluten-free self-raising flour (we used Doves Farm, which is also wheat-free); 2 tsp gluten-free baking powder; 250g mashed potatoes forked through so it doesn't go in as one lump; 2 lemons zest and juice; 1 orange zest and juice; 175g icing sugar; squeeze lemon juice (save a little from the cake quantity); chocolate eggs, to decorate, if you like (check they're gluten-free)

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Lemon & orange cake

Lemon & orange cake

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Cuts into 10 slices

Easy

Prep: 30 mins

Cook: 45 mins

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This citrus centrepiece has a secret ingredient that gives the cake a lovely texture, yet makes it gluten- and wheat-free

Gluten-free

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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250g pack butter

softened
250g golden caster sugar
4 eggs
250g gluten-free self-raising flour

(we used Doves Farm, which is also wheat-free)
2 tsp gluten-free baking powder
250g mashed potatoes

forked through so it doesn't go in as one lump
2 lemons

zest and juice
1 orange

zest and juice

To decorate

175g icing sugar
squeeze lemon

juice (save a little from the cake quantity)
chocolate

eggs, to decorate, if you like (check they're gluten-free)

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal497
fat24g
saturates14g
carbs71g
sugars45g
fibre1g
protein5g
salt0.68g

low

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease and line a deep, 20cm round cake tin. Beat the butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy, then gradually beat in the eggs, one by one. Fold in the flour, baking powder, mashed potato, zests and juices. Scrape into the tin and level the top. Bake for 45 mins until golden and a skewer poked in comes out clean. Cool in the tin for 10 mins, then move to a wire rack.
step 2

Sift the icing sugar, then mix in enough of the lemon juice to make a stiff, but still runny icing. Spread over the cake so it dribbles down the sides a little. Add some chocolate eggs, if using. Leave until the icing has set, then slice and serve. Delicious with a dollop of natural yogurt.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, April 2011

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