Mint Orange Butter Cake
Ingredients
- 150 g All purpose flour/Maida
- 3/4 tsp Baking powder
- 2 count Egg
- 120 g Salted Butter
- 125 g Granulated sugar
- Milk- 1/4 cup +2tbsp
- 1/2 tbsp Orange zest
- 3 tbsp Orange juice
- 2 tbsp Thick mint paste
- 3 tbsp Cocoa powder
- 1 tsp Activated charcoal ( optional)
- Green food colour- 1 drop
Directions
Keep the mint paste ready. Add a drop of green colour. You can use peppermint essence and green colour instead of fresh mint.
Sift flour and baking powder thrice. Keep it aside.
Pre heat the oven at 150 degrees C. Grease and dust a small loaf tin. You can use a regular bread tin.
Cream butter , orange zest and sugar well.
Add gently beaten eggs.
Keep beating using a hand mixer.
Gently fold in flour, orange juice and milk.
Do not stir the batter. Fold in these ingredients very gently using a spatula.
SIft the cocoa powder and activated charcoal powder together. Activated charcoal is optional.
Take around 8 tbsp of cake batter separately and add the mint paste. Mix it very gently. Keep it aside.
Now divide the orange flavoured batter into two parts.
Transfer one part into the prepared tin.
Sift 1 1/2 tbsp of cocoa powder over the orange batter.
Now gently transfer the green layer over the cocoa layer.
Repeat sifting the remaining cocoa powder over the green layer.Do not stir the layers.
Transfer the remaining orange batter on the cocoa layer.
Place it in the oven. Bake for 30-35 minutes at 150 degrees or until done.
