What can you do with a bit of wheat flour, sugar, baking powder, some eggs, oranges, oil, and yoghurt?
Yeah - an orange cake!! 🍊
Although I should have been practising the piano, as tomorrow is a busy day for me because of some projects I am working on, I promised that I would make a follow-up post and announce the result of the guessing game posted a few days ago. I thought the best way for that would be to mix it with a baking post, using oranges as one of the ingredients and reveal the weight of the picked oranges at the end of the post. So, if you just want to find out that part, you will scroll down through my post to the end... unless you want to see this easy recipe and its elaboration. Then stay with me while I am trying my best as a "chef". 😂
I found a recipe that suggested cutting into pieces 1 whole orange with peel and mixing it all together with 3 large eggs, 1 yoghurt, 1 cup of sunflower oil, 2 cups of sugar, 3 cups of wheat flour and 1 packet of baking powder.
However, I did a bit different version, ie all the measures in my recipe were "more or less" 😂. I chose one medium-sized orange and one tangerine, and in the end added an additional half of a smaller orange. Maybe it exceeds the original recipe, but let's try to improvise and add a super intense orange taste to this cake. I cut them into pieces, with the peel. As these fruits are free of chemicals, I know their peel is also safe and healthy. The quantity of eggs (3), yoghurt and baking powder is the same as in the recipe. All the rest... was measured by eye. 😁 I also added a packet of vanilla sugar, which was not in the recipe.
A hand mixer and a deep bowl are welcome to join this post. They did all the work, and I was there just to supervise the blending and mixing process. Make sure the pieces of orange peel are well blended; if not, continue to blend... or take those out that were stubborn and didn't want to fall under the knives of the mixer.
The next step is to pour the mixed dough into a baking pan. The recipe said to grease the pan, but again, I did it my way... I lined it with baking paper. I don't know why I chose it this way actually. Maybe to take it out easier when it is ready; however, I am not sure if this was the right way to do it.
In this moment, I suspected the dough was not thick enough. Anyway, it went to the oven. The recipe said to bake it for about 40 minutes at 170 degrees Celsius.
Right now, it is still in the baking process, although 50 60 minutes have passed since I placed it into the oven... Oh, I guess it is better for me just to play the piano and not be a chef. 😂
While waiting for the cake to be ready, let's see who was the closest in the guess about the weight of the picked oranges and tangerines. There were no additional hints, just this photo:
Those who wanted to play said:
@enraizar 12 kg
@livinguktaiwan 15kg
@avdesing 12 kg
@duskobgd 13 kg
@alonicus 16 kg
@nesbi94 10 kg
@mdrguez 20 kg
Later, I realised that these photos would be of help... for example, one orange is 500 grams, a few tangerines weigh 1 kilogram...
In total... we picked 36kg of oranges and tangerines!!! 😱 I hope you can see that number on the scale! It means @mdrguez was the closest in her guess, so I invite her to a piece of an orange cake that I just took out of the oven.
It is a very uneven, crooked, failed orange cake. Drunk, probably, without alcohol. So, I don't know whether she would like to try it, as I can't guarantee it is safe for consumption. 🤣 Instead, a small gift will land in her wallet. 😉
P.S. I should have baked it in a different pan (a shallow and wider one), and prepared it with one orange less, or with a bit more flour. However, its smell (and taste of a small piece I tried) is... like from an orange heaven! 🍊
