Oxfordshire cider cake

Ready in 1 hour, serves 6

Ingredients

125 g	Butter
½ cup	Sugar
2	Eggs, large
1 ½ cups	Flour
½ tsp	Ground nutmeg
1 tsp	Baking soda
1 cup	Cider, we used Old Mout Cider

Orange icing

1 ¼ cups	Icing sugar (Main)
1	Orange, grated rind, plus enough juice to blend (Main)
2 Tbsp	Butter

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 160C fan bake.
2. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add in the well-beaten eggs.
3. Divide flour in half. In one half, stir in the ground nutmeg and baking soda. Place the remaining flour to one side.
4. To the nutmeg-soda flour, add cider and beat to a froth. Stir frothy mix into creamed mixture. Beat it all together.
5. Sift in the reserved flour and fold together gently.
6. Place in a greased and paper-lined 18cm cake tin and bake for 40 to 45 minutes.
7. Place icing sugar, rind and butter in a bowl and mix well. Add juice to achieve desired consistency. Ice cake once cool.