"ORANGE CAKE COVERED WITH FONDANT."

Ingredients:
3 cups flour.
6 eggs.
2 cups of sugar.
1 cup orange juice.
1 cup corn oil.
2 tablespoons baking powder.
1 tablespoon orange zest.
Vanilla to taste.

Preparation:
1- Mix the eggs with the sugar, with surrounding movements until a homogeneous mixture is obtained.
2- Then add the flour sifted with the baking powder. Gradually add the orange juice. Beat for one more minute.
3- Finally, add the orange zest and if you wish you can also add the zest of a lemon to enhance the taste of the orange.
4- Place the vanilla in the pan and mix everything very well and butter and flourish. Place the mixture in the pan and bake for 45 minutes at 180°C (350°F).
5- After that time, prick our cake with a knife if it comes out clean and this is ready, put it to cool at room temperature and then cut it to your liking with the fondant, here below I will indicate its preparation...

Ingredients for fondant:
1 kg icing sugar
2 tablespoons CMC
2 tablespoons glucose
2 tablespoons glycerin
2 tablespoons butter
? cup unflavored gelatine
6 tablespoons water
teaspoon vanilla extract or orange essence.

Preparation:
1- In one cup we sift the icing sugar and divide it into two bowls, in one we place the two spoonfuls of CMC and the other cup we reserve it for the end at the time of kneading and spreading the fondant.

3- Once the gelatine is dissolved we place the glucose, glycerine, melted butter and vanilla transparent.
4- We place on the table the icing sugar that we had reserved with the CMC, and we make a volcano and in the center of the volcano we add the gelatin mixture and mix it very well until the mixture is integrated and compacts.
5- With the icing sugar that we had reserved in the other cup, we are going to use it by slowly adding it to the dough until it softens, and how do we know this? When the dough does not stick to the table and our hands. Once the dough is ready we wrap it in wrapping paper and let it rest for an hour, after that time extend your dough and start decorating it to your liking, I made the cake a hole in the center before placing the fondant, I placed natural flowers and a bottle of champagne wine, this decoration is ideal for a wedding anniversary, I recommend them!
I hope you like this beautiful cake...

From my authorship
Chef Marisela Polanco.