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Nutrition: per square (20)

  • kcal213
  • fat11g
  • saturates6g
  • carbs27g
  • sugars20g
  • fibre1g
  • protein2g
  • salt0.3g
    low
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Method

  • step 1

    Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Butter and line a 20 x 30cm traybake tin with baking parchment.

  • step 2

    Put the butter, caster sugar, flour, eggs and orange zest in a bowl. Beat thoroughly with an electric whisk until creamy and smooth. Stir in the gooseberries, then spoon into the tin and level the surface. Bake for 35 mins until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean.

  • step 3

    Stir the orange juice and granulated sugar together, spoon over the surface of the warm cake and leave to cool and set. Cut into squares.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, June 2012

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Overall rating

A star rating of 4.7 out of 5.40 ratings

121foodie

This tasted so good. I loved the tart berries and sweetness of orange. The contrast was amazing and was a fabulous generously portioned cake.

Honeygran

A lovely moist cake. It took 15 extra minutes in the oven but was perfect then

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rosiecpick

I wanted to make a smaller amount of the cake so I used170g of the flour, sugar, gooseberrys etc. And then I also read some reviews which said that it was quite sweet so I made the syrup with two dessert spoons of caster sugar and the juice of an orange. The cake turned out pretty good however the…

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rosiecpick

I also cooked it in a 20cmx20cm tin for 30mins at the same temperature

Chefbelly

This was still runny in the middle for me, i ended up doubling the cooking time and lowering the oven a little, I think my tin was perhaps a bit too small so the cake thickness caused the runnyness. Worked out fine in the end!

Kerrihbl

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Beautiful recipe, I took the advice from the other comments about the sugar and orange juice drizzle for the top and didn’t use as much sugar and tasted it till it was to my likening then put it on top. I also added a bit of orange flavouring I had in the cupboard to the cake mix.

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