Lemon Orange Cake

Why settle for a store-bought ordinary cake glorified by fancy decoration, haven't you had those enough? Why not make this exotic cake instead. This a citrus cake, it's sharp and sweet! Making it is a piece of cake!

Ingredients:

• 1 lemon
• 1 large orange
• 250g Flour
• 250g Butter (or Margerine) 
• 250g Sugar
• 4 Eggs
• 1 tsp Baking powder

Making the cake-mix:

A food processor makes it easy to mix, but if you don't have one, just use a hand mixer or a whisk.

• Put Flour, Butter, Sugar, Eggs and Baking powder in the food processor.
• Grate the lemon and orange skin (save some for decoration and add most of it to the food processor.
• Cut the lemon and orange in half and squeeze and collect the juices in a cup (no seeds) > add to the food processor.
• Mix all the ingredients

Baking

• Pre-heat the oven to 180c
• Butter the inside of the tin (I used a 9 inch tin)
• Cut and place a baking paper to cover the bottom of the tin.
• Pour the cake mix in the tin > shake to distribute evenly.
• Place it in the middle of a preheated oven (180 c) for 45 minutes. 

Timing is very important, use a timer. After 45 minutes bring it out and push a small knife through the middle of the cake, if it comes out clean, it's done. If not put it back in the oven for another 5-10 minutes. After first time you made it you will know the exact correct time for your tin and oven. Once done leave it out to cool.

Icing ( also called Frosting):

• 250g Mascarpone cheese*
• 4 tbsp Icing sugar
• whip it up
• spread over and around.
• decorate with sprinkling the saved shredded lemon and orange skin

*If Mascarpone cheese is not available you can use Cream cheese or use Buttercream Frosting >(mix 125g butter + 250g of icing sugar + 1 tbsp milk + and whip it up)