
Leftover vegetable and orange cake
Serves 8-12
- 200g butter or margarine
- 140g sultanas
- 2 oranges
- 300g self-raising flour
- 300g light brown sugar
- 5g ground ginger
- 3g baking soda
- 4 eggs
- 300g cooked but unseasoned vegetables (beetroot and parsnip are my favourite)
- 200g icing sugar
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180°C. Grease and line a 30 x 20cm baking or roasting tin with baking parchment. Mix the sultanas with the zest and juice from 1 orange.
- Mix the flour, caster sugar, spices, bicarbonate of soda and a pinch of salt into a large bowl.
- Mix the eggs with the melted butter and sultana mixture then tip into the dry ingredients and stir.
- Stir in the grated veggies and scrape the mixture into the baking tin. Bake for 35 – 40 mins or until a skewer poked in the center comes out clean.
- Cool in the tin.
- Once cool, sift the icing sugar into a bowl and stir in the remaining orange zest plus enough juice to make a runny icing.
- Drizzle all over the cake and scatter with the crushed sugar cubes. Leave to set then slice into 15 squares.
- Serve!
Created by Chef Paolo Armani, Worldchefs, Ireland