Orange Blossom Cakes - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    90 g butter, softened
    1 tsp orange blossom water
    110 g caster sugar
    2 None large eggs
    150 g self-raising flour
    30 g ground almonds
    125 ml milk
    -1 None Orange Glace Icing
    160 g icing sugar
    15 g softened butter
    None None boiling water
Preparation
    Preheat oven to 180\u00b0C/160\u00b0C fan/gas 4. Grease 6-hole 180ml mini fluted tube pan or Texas muffin tin.
    To make cakes, beat butter, blossom water and sugar in small bowl with electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time (mixture will curdle). Stir in sifted flour, ground almonds and milk, in 2 batches.
    Spoon mixture into muffin tin. Bake for 25 mins. Leave cakes to stand in tin for 5 mins before turning, top-side up, onto wire rack to cool.
    To make glace icing, sift icing sugar into small heatproof bowl; stir in butter, blossom water and enough boiling water to make a firm paste. Set bowl over small saucepan of simmering water and stir icing until runny. Drizzle icing over cold cakes.

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