Blood orange cake
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- Preparation:
- Total:
- Serves: 16 persons
Ingredients
- 200 gbutter
- 100 gsugar
- 75 gground cane sugar
- 4eggs
- 2blood oranges
- 2 tbspmilk
- 200 gwhite flour
- 50 gshelled ground almonds
- ¾ tspbaking powder
- ¾ tspsodium bicarbonate
- ¼ tspsalt
- 50 gicing sugar
- 1 dllemon juice
- 60 gicing sugar
Instructions
Step 1
Place the butter and sugar in a bowl, mix using the whisk attachment on a mixer. Add the eggs and continue to beat until the mixture becomes lighter in colour. Mix in the orange zest and milk. Combine the flour, almonds, baking powder, baking soda and salt, mix in. Transfer the mixture to the prepared tin.Step 2
Approx. 1 hr. in the lower half of an oven preheated to 180°C. Remove the cake from the oven, allow to cool slightly, prick firmly with a wooden skewer.Step 3
Transfer 1½ tbsp of the reserved orange juice to a small bowl, mix the remainder of the juice (approx. 150 ml) with the icing sugar and lemon juice. Pour the icing over the warm cake. Remove the cake from the tin and place on a rack to cool. Mix the remainder of the juice and icing sugar to make a thick icing, drizzle on top.