Italian Orange Drizzle Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    For cake
    100 g butter (melted)
    2 eggs
    1 orange, zest of
    100 g icing sugar
    100 g caster sugar
    125 g flour
    1 teaspoon baking powder
    For icing
    1 orange, juice of
    100 g icing sugar
Preparation
    Melt butter.
    Whisk eggs, icing sugar, caster sugar and orange zest until pale and fluffy (takes about 5 minutes with an electric hand whisk).
    Fold in melted butter with a large metal spoon.
    Sieve flour and baking powder together and gently fold into egg mixture.
    Bake at 180\u00b0C in a greased and lined 20cm tin for 30-35 minutes.
    Cool for 5-10 minutes in the tine before turning out to cool completely.
    To make icing mix icing sugar with orange juice until fairly runny and drizzle all over the cooled cake.

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