Grandma's Secret

For as long as I can remember my grandma has made this wonderful cake she sells and serves with coffee.  My grandmother however lives a bit farther than the next town and calls San Jose, Costa Rica home.  Her orange flavoured cake is not only one of my favorites but also my mom's.  For my mom's upcoming birthday I decided I would give it a try and before you can say "hola" I had my grandma on the line.  I jotted down her instructions and 5 mins later her secret (not so secret) recipe was mine.  As
I am a fan of sharing good recipes I couldn't hold back on this one. 

Grandma's Orange Coffee Cake

3 cups flour

1 1/2 cup sugar

4 eggs

2 x 150gr butter (approx 1 1/2 cups)

1 small glass of orange juice (about 1 cup)

3 tsp baking powder

Cream butter until pale and fluffy and slowly add sugar

Add eggs one at a time combining well after each

in a separate bowl combine flour and baking powder

Add dry ingredients to butter mixture alternating with orange juice

Pour into well greased bundt pan

Bake at 350 F for approximately 1 hour until dark golden colour.

I will be wishing my mom a happy birthday this week and let you know how it turns out!

Jan 3, 2011
Update on the cake, while the recipe is fabulous and easy to put together unfortunately for me it stuck to my bundt pan....  Instead of a lovely slice of cake, we had yummy cake in a bowl.  After this huge disappointment I tried again and poured it into a greased and parchment lined springform pan for 1 hour and 14 mins.  Much better!