Orange Cake Recipe - Afternoon tea Cake

10 minute Processor Orange Cake

Reminescing about my Danish Grandmother who always used to cook a fresh Orange cake for Sunday afternoon tea, I remembered how, as children,
my brother and I looked forward to visiting her house as the aroma of fresh home bake would come wafting out the door, when we arrived.
It is important to anyone can abandon convenience food a.k.a. supermarket style prepared cakes, in favour of a mouth-watering freshly baked treat for afternoon tea,  and know that it is not difficult nor time consuming. I think this cake took me less than 10 minutes to cook, due to speedy preparation in the processor. Then you simply wait for the oven timer to ring, and voila!
Just perfect for a lazy Sunday afternoon tea, this quick and easy recipe will have your family's mouth watering for more. Apart from the sugar content, and a small amount of necessary butter,there are no extra unhealthy ingredients; plus it has the advantage of a bit of Vitamin C and delightful orange flavour.
A cake that is good for you! Yay!
No need to add any frosting or topping, just eat it warm out of the oven.
Of course, if you wish a dusting of vanilla/icing sugar, or a cream cheese frosting would be a nice option,if you aren't counting calories.
Ingredients:
1 cup Castor or fine grain sugar
1 Cup Self Raising flour ( or 1 cup plain flour and 2 tsp baking powder)
2 tablespoon extra of plain flour
2 tsp grated orange rind
1/2 cup orange juice
60 g soft butter
2 eggs
Method:
1. Combine sugar, flours, and orange rind in processor with butter. Process till just combined.
2. Pour Orange juice through the chute with motor on.
3. Add eggs and blitz till smooth.
4. Pour into well greased bar tin ( base 12 x 22cm or 5 x 9inch) that has base lined with greaseproof paper.
5. Bake Moderate Oven 40 minutes or till top springs back when lightly pressed.
Cool 5 minutes in tin before turning out on wire rack to cool.

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Folk art flowers in a flash - Painting for school craft stalls for fete or Mother's day

Simple quick and fun designs to paint

These simplistic flowers are done freehand, in a flash using a # 3 or #4 round brush and some acrylic gouache. I used Brilliant violet, Magenta, Yello light and Pine Green. A basic " comma" stroke with some centre stippling is all the technique needed. ( see further instructions below)

All these items cost less than $1.00 as a raw material. Base paint was leftover house paint or acrylic gouache itself. Teenage and tween girls go ga-ga for them, so they could be equally useful as a inexpensive birthday gift (to be teamed with some pencils, erasers, or sweets), or as a $5.00 item in a school fundraiser/ Mother's day craft stall. The fridge magnet can be embellished with any number of sayings appropriate to the target audience: Mum's cafe: Open 24 hours, Girls only.... etc.

 

My second projects are just now cooking in the oven. I used glossies to paint white ceramic ovenware to create a Japanese/Scandinavian effect. Glossies need to be cooked in the oven to make them permanent. 

I hope this simple projects provide some inspiration for your fundraising efforts.

Comma strokes are created with a brush fully loaded in acrylic paint thinned to the consistency of cream with water.  

N.B.It is important to hold the brush straight up at a 90 angle to the project, not as you would a pencil.

  1.Press down on the brush to flatten the bristles, ( right down to the    ferrule if necessary for a wide stroke such as on on teapots shown here)

  2. Pause to allow the bristles to fan out...

3. Gradually lift the brush, (allowing the bristles to come together again) and direct the  brush tip away from you making a tear drop shaped comma stroke. The emphasis is on gradually. If you lift the brush too quickly, the end of the stroke will be blunt and not tapered nicely. 

So remember, press, pause and lift.