Christmas orange and cardamom cake

Christmas or and and cardamom cake

Ingredients;

• For an 8 inch (20 cm) cake:
• 175g (6 oz) self-raising flour sifted
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ¾ tsp ground cardamom
• 1 orange peeked and skin taken off each wedge
• 175g (6oz) very soft butter
• 175g (6 oz) caster sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 3 tsp vanilla essence 
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• To decorate
• Orange peel slices
• Christmas icing decorations 

Method:

1. Cream butter and sugar
2. Beat in the eggs and the vanilla essence 
3. Mix the flour, baking powder, cardamom and orange zest in a large bowl. Add to the rest of the ingredients and mix with an electric hand mixer until well combined and very smooth. 
4. Add the cake batter to a buttered cake tin and gently level with a spatula. Bake for 30-35 minutes until a skewer comes out clean.
5. Allow to stand for 5 minutes before turning them on to a wire rack to cool.
6. Top with whipped cream, orange peel and Christmas decorations