This fabulous 3-layer orange cake with coconut yoghurt icing serves 12 - but only if you can stop yourself from eating more than one piece!
Ingredients
2 ½ cups plain flour
1 ¾ cups caster sugar
1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
¾ teaspoon salt
1 cup oil (extra-virgin olive oil, canola, vegetable, coconut)
1 cup fresh orange juice
3 free-range eggs
1 cup coconut yoghurt
1-2 teaspoons orange zest
Coconut Yoghurt Icing
1 cup coconut yoghurt (we used Cathedral Cove Naturals)
250g cream cheese, softened (or dairy-free cream cheese)
4 cups icing sugar
2 teaspoons orange zest
1 tablespoon fresh orange juice
Method
- Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease and line three 20cm spring-form tins.
- Mix the dry ingredients with a whisk in a large mixing bowl, to aerate and combine.
- Mix the oil, orange juice, eggs, coconut yogurt, and orange zest until completely mixed together in another bowl.
- Fold the wet and dry ingredients, mixing only until only just combined. Divide between the three prepared cake tins.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. Allow the cakes to cool in the tins for 15 minutes before turning out onto wire racks. Once cakes have cooled, cover and fill with the orange cream cheese icing.
- To make the icing, beat the coconut yogurt and cream cheese for 5 minutes until light and fluffy. Scrape down the sides of the bowl halfway through mixing. Add icing sugar, orange zest, and orange juice.
NZ NAVEL ORANGES
There are oranges and then there are Gisborne oranges. Our incomparable Navel oranges are loved throughout New Zealand.
A winter orange, Navels are sweet, seedless, and juicy. Our region has the perfect climate of sunny warm days and cool nights to be able to grow one of the world’s favourite fruits.
Our oranges are grown on trees we planted in 2003. We knew our soil comprised exceptionally fertile heavy silt loam, renowned in our district for growing just about anything, but it wasn’t until we started selling our oranges direct to customers that we realised just how remarkable they are. Flavoursome, juicy and bursting with goodness, they have to be tasted to be fully appreciated.
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