Bavarian Orange Cake Lascoutx from Mietta's Recipe Collection

The 2008
Mietta Song Recital Award

Bavarian Orange Cake Lascoutx

Ingredients

1 cup Butter

Butter Butter

1 cup Sugar

Sugar Sugar

3 Eggs separated

Egg Egg

3/4 cup Sour Cream

Cream Cream

1 rind of an Orange grated

Cox's Orange Pippins Cox's Orange Pippins

1 rind of a Lemon grated

Lemon Lemon

2 cup Flour

Cornflour Cornflour

1 teaspoons Baking Powder

Baking Powder Baking Powder

1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda

Baking Soda Baking Soda

1 cup ground Walnuts

Walnut Walnut

1 pinch Salt

Salt Salt

Method

Cream butter and sugar. Beat in egg yolks (one at a time), stir in sour cream and finely grated orange and lemon rind. Sift flour, baking powder and baking soda. Sift flour into butter mixture 1/2 cup at a time and fold in walnuts (or hazelnuts). Beat egg whites with salt and fold into batter. Pour batter into buttered and floured 9 inch tube pan and bake in a moderate oven for 50 minutes. Let stand in tin 5 minutes, then turn out.

In a bowl combine juice of one orange and one lemon and 1/2 cup finely granulated (castor) sugar, stir until sugar is dissolved and brush on cake.

Apple Kuchen
A glazed walnut and orange cake

Bavarian Orange Cake Lascoutx
A glazed walnut and orange cake

The 2008Mietta Song Recital Award