Orange & Brown Butter Loaf cake with lemon drizzle

Ingredients:

150g Plain flour (alternatively, you can use 150g self-raising flour and omit the baking powder)
50g Almond flour
1.5 tsp. baking powder
¼ tsp. fine sea salt
100g unsalted butter, browned
3 XL eggs, room temperature
125g caster sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract or paste
1 orange, washed and pureed*

Glaze:

1 cup icing sugar, sifted
3.5 tsp lemon juice

Bake in a loaf tin approximately 23cm x 12cm x 7cm deep

Method:

Preheat your oven to 180C conventional (160C fan-forced). 

Line your loaf tin with baking paper on the base and sides and set aside.

In a small bowl, mix together the plain flour, almond flour, baking powder and salt.  Set aside.

Add your butter to a small pot and place over medium heat on the stove. Cook until the butter has melted and turned foamy on top and below you can see the milk solids have turned a golden colour. Remove from the heat and allow to cool. 

Add the eggs and caster sugar to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a whip attachment.  Alternatively, you can use egg beaters.  Whip until light, fluffy and grown considerably in volume, about 4-5 minutes. Turn off the machine and add the cooled browned butter, orange pulp and vanilla and whip again to combine. Turn the machine off. 

Add the dry ingredients into the mixer bowl and turn the machine to low speed and mix until just combined and no dry lumps are visible.  Scrape everything into the tin and bake in the center of the oven for 50-60 minutes or until a cake tester tested in the center of the cake comes out clean.

Allow it to cool completely before removing from the tin and placing it on a rack, over a tray to catch any drips.

Sift your icing sugar through a fine mesh sieve and stir in the lemon juice. It will be thick but this is what you want! Pour it directly down the center of the cake and push the glaze just to the edges. Let it naturally spill over the edges very slowly. It will harden as it sits.  

Once the glaze it crisp, slice and serve.

* to puree an orange I jut cut it into about 8 pieces and blitz in the food processor or blender and try to get it as smooth as possible.