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What better to do on a rainy day than to bake (and subsequently eat) a delicious orange and poppyseed bundt cake!!

“What is a bundt cake,” you ask? A bundt cake is made in a bundt (or kugelhopf) pan, and has a big hole in the middle, which means you can make a super delicious cake without the middle being undercooked.

I’ll never make a regular cake again!! After making this chocolate espresso funfetti bundt cake, and now this delight, Im a bundt cake nut!!

This was delicious and easy to make…and yes, if anyone is wondering, that is a lemon lurking in the background, but it was purely for decorative purposes….I just ran out of oranges!!

I used this recipe.

Ingredients:

Melted butter, to grease
125ml (1/2 cup) fresh orange juice
130g (1/2 cup) Greek-style natural yoghurt
60g (1/4 cup) poppy seeds
250g butter, at room temperature, chopped
270g (1 1/4 cups) caster sugar
2 tablespoons finely grated orange rind
4 eggs
340g (2 1/4 cups) plain flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 orange
150g (1 cup) pure icing sugar
1 tablespoon fresh orange juice, extra

Method:

Preheat oven to 160°C. Brush a 25cm (top measurement) kugelhopf pan with melted butter to lightly grease. Combine the orange juice, yoghurt and poppy seeds in a small bowl.
Use an electric beater to beat the butter, caster sugar and orange rind in a large bowl until pale and creamy. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition until just combined.
Sift the flour and baking powder over the egg mixture. Add the yoghurt mixture and use a large metal spoon to fold until just combined. Spoon mixture into the prepared pan and smooth the surface. Bake in oven for 1 hour or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. Set aside for 5 minutes to cool slightly. Turn onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Use a zester to remove the rind from the orange. (Alternatively, use a vegetable peeler to peel rind from the orange. Use a small sharp knife to remove white pith from the rind. Cut rind into thin strips.) Combine the icing sugar and extra orange juice in a bowl until smooth. Pour over the cake and sprinkle with the orange rind. Set aside for 20 minutes or until the icing is set.