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Orange Lightning Cake

by Editorial Staff

Summary

Prep Time 30 mins
Cook Time 30 mins
Total Time 3 hrs
Course Baking
Cuisine European
Servings (Default: 1)

Ingredients

  • 200 g butter, or mararine
  • 200 g suar
  • 1 pinch (s) salt
  • 1 packet vanilla sugar
  • 4 egg (s)
  • 200 g flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 4 orange (s)
  • 200 g powdered suar
  • 2 ½ tablespoon lemon juice
  • 1 ½ tablespoon milk
  • Orange (n), sliced, for decoration
Orange Lightning Cake
Orange Lightning Cake

Instructions

  1. Mix the butter, sugar, salt and vanilla sugar until creamy. Stir in eggs one at a time. Mix flour with baking powder, sieve onto the egg mixture and stir in briefly. Grease a springform pan (26 cm diameter) and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Pour in the dough and spread it evenly. Bake in a preheated oven at 175 degrees (convection 150 degrees) for 25 - 30 minutes. Let the cake cool in the tin for about 5 minutes.
  2. Squeeze the oranges, measure out 200 ml of juice. Overturn the cake and drizzle with the juice. Let cool down. Mix the powdered sugar with lemon juice. Add milk and mix everything into a thick pouring. Spread the icing on the cake and let it run down a little on the edge. Let it set in the refrigerator. Decorate the cake with orange slices.
Editorial Staff

About Editorial Staff

The Boss Kitchen editorial staff oversees content review, fact-checking, and recipe verification across the site. Published articles pass through the editorial team before going live, ensuring ingredient lists, techniques, cooking times, and nutritional claims hold up in a home kitchen. The team coordinates contributions across the site writers, handles reader corrections, and maintains consistency in measurement conventions, safety guidance, and dietary labeling. Posts under this byline typically represent team-reviewed reference material, site announcements, or editorial roundups rather than individual-author features, and they are held to the same sourcing standards as bylined recipe and product coverage.

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