El Salvador: Maria Luisa Cake

The Dish: Orange sponge cake
The Country:  El Salvador uses the US dollar.

messy ingredient pile

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 cup butter
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• Orange zest
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 5 eggs
• 1/4 cup orange juice
• 1 cup orange marmalade
• powdered sugar 

I didn't have even sized cake pans, so it's a little lopsided and ugly...

Procedure

-Preheat oven to 350°.
-Grease three equal sized cake tins
-Mix flour and baking powder
-mix butter and sugar until fluffy.  Add in vanilla and eggs (one at a time). Mix.
-Slowly add in flour and orange juice.
-Equally spoon batter into the cake pans.
-Bake for 20 minutes.
-Mix marmalade with a little bit of water so that it is spreadable.
-Use marmalade as frosting between cake layers.
-Sprinkle powdered sugar on top.

boom. layer cake.

Notes: I loved it. It's nice and soft if you eat it while it's still a little warm.  It might be even better if you try it with chocolate ice cream.

Rating: 4.8