Easiest Way to Prepare Homemade Marmalade Cake

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, marmalade cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Marmalade Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Marmalade Cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have marmalade cake using 24 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Marmalade Cake:

1. Make ready the cakes
2. Prepare 1 cup sunflower oil
3. Make ready 1/2 cup white sugar
4. Prepare 1/2 cup soft light brown sugar, any lumps squashed out
5. Prepare 3 large eggs
6. Take 2 1/4 cup all purpose flour
7. Get 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
8. Make ready 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
9. Make ready 1 zest of 3 oranges
10. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
11. Take 2 cup grated/shredded carrot
12. Get 2 cup sultanas
13. Prepare 1/3 cup chopped walnuts
14. Take 1 cup desiccated coconut
15. Prepare 1 tsp vanilla extract
16. Get the syrup
17. Take 1 cup light brown sugar
18. Get 1 juice of two oranges
19. Make ready 1/2 cup marmalade (I used shredless)
20. Take the frosting
21. Make ready 2 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
22. Get 1 juice and zest of 2 oranges
23. Make ready 1 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar, sifted
24. Get 1/4 cup marmalade, 1 tablespoon of which reserved.

Steps to make Marmalade Cake:

1. Preheat oven to 150 C/ 300°F
2. Butter and line 2* 8 inch cake pans with baking parchmemt
3. In a stand mixer bowl or with an electric hand mixer, beat the oil, eggs and sugars until light and fluffy
4. Sift in the cinnamin, nutmeg, baking soda and flour, and mix in with a metal spoon until muxture looks smooth.
5. Add the other cake ingredients and mix well.
6. Divide mixture between the two pans.
7. Bake both cakes on the middle shelf for 30-35 minutes.
8. To make the syrup, put the juice, sugar and marmalade in a small saucepan, simmer until all melted, then take off the heat, but keep warm.
9. Set up a wire rack with something laid underneath it to catch any spilled syrup (kitchen paper or a cloth)
10. Take cakes out of the oven and while still wsrm use a skewer to poke holes all over both cakes, then spoon the syrup over the two cakes.
11. Allow cakes to cool completely
12. To make the frosting, beat the butter until fluffy, add the zest and juice, the marmalade and mix in.
13. Mix in the confectioner's sugar. If it splits, don't panic, just keep beating it for a few minutes until it comes back together
14. Place the first cake top down on a serving plate or cake dish.
15. Spread the reserved marmalade over the base, then spread on the filling (I had enough frosting to do the top of the cake aswell, but if you don't, you can just decorate the top with some orange zest or candied orange peel).
16. Place the second cake on top, as usual.
17. If you can, try keeping this cake for a few days as apparently it only gets better! :)

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