Trials and tribulations of a Bundt

As Bob bought me a Bundt tin for work and I promised a colleague a cake at work for picking up an extra shift, I decided to try out my new tin.

Recipe one was an orange and poppy seed cake. Not entirely successful for the following reasons:

• Underbaked, slightly
• Not enough orange
• Too impatient when waiting for it to cool and took it out the tin too early 
• Put the tin on the baking stone as am too lazy to move it/the shelves surrounding it

Still, we're eating it.

After advice from Dolly Bakes, I decided to have another bash, albeit after a 13 hour shift at work. Not a recipe for sucessful baking.

Recipe two was a vanilla and orange cake. Here is the recipe I tried:

200g caster sugar

200g butter (I used Stork)

3 eggs

1 1/2 tablespoons vanilla extract (I used Nielson-Massey)

300g plain flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

150ml milk (I used skimmed)

125ml orange juice (I used Innocent)

1. Grease and flour tin well 

2. Cream butter and sugar until pale, light and fluffy

3. Beat in the eggs one at a time, and beat well after each addition. With the third egg, also add a tablespoon of flour

4. Fold in the flour, baking powder and vanilla gradually

5. Mix in milk

6. Mix in orange juice

It'll be a very wet mixture, but that's okay! 

7. Bake for approx 50 minutes at 160 centigrade

8. Leave until cool before removing from the tin!!

9. Dust with icing sugar.

This would have been a dream if I hadn't forgotten to put the last 100g flour in. Rescue mission Bundt cake was a success though - removed cake from oven after 5 minutes, sieved in remaining flour and stirred in with the handle of a wooden spoon....

Luckily the cake came out nicely and was demolished at work, so no pictures unfortunately. 

Bird x