Orange cake with syrup (fluffy)

Delicious, simple and easy to make, the orange cake recipe requires few ingredients, but the dough is super fluffy. Furthermore, with the syrup made from sugar and orange juice, your cake will be moist. A great option for breakfast and an afternoon snack, especially accompanied by freshly brewed coffee. Anyway, check out the step-by-step instructions for this incredible recipe below, which takes 40 minutes and yields 12 servings.

Orange cake recipe with syrup

Ingredients for the dough

• 4 eggs
• 2 cups of sugar (tea)
• 1 cup (tea) oil
• Juice of 2 oranges
• Peel of 1 orange
• 2 cups (tea) of wheat flour
• 1 tablespoon of yeast

Ingredients for the syrup

• 1 cup of sugar
• Half a cup of orange juice

How to prepare the orange cake

1. First, prepare the orange cake batter.
2. To do this, place the eggs, sugar, juice and orange peel into the blender and blend.
3. Then, pour the mixture into a bowl and add the wheat flour and baking powder.
4. Then, place the dough in a mold with a hole in the center, grease and flour the mold beforehand.
5. Place in a preheated medium oven for approximately 30 minutes.
6. Meanwhile prepare the syrup for your cake.
7. Place the sugar and orange juice in a pan.
8. Bring to a boil and cook until all the sugar dissolves.
9. When the cake is baked, remove it from the oven, unmold it and pour the orange syrup, still warm, over the cake.
10. Serve as you prefer.

Tips

1. A great tip, according to the “Tudo Gostoso” blog, is that to prevent your orange cake from becoming bitter, use fresh orange juice.
2. If you don't like or can't consume the oil, you can replace it with margarine, as it doesn't change the result of the cake, which is super fluffy, light and delicious.
3. Another syrup option is to mix orange juice with condensed milk, it looks incredible.

So, if you liked this tip and want to learn more recipes, read also: Traditional sponge cake.