The addition of zest, glaze, and a candied citrus garnish heightens the refined blood orange style on this orange loaf cake, which manages to be moist with out being dense.
Blood Orange Loaf Cake
- 1 cup (200 grams) granulated sugar
- 1 cup (240 grams) bitter cream
- 3 huge eggs (150 grams)
- 2 tablespoons (4 grams) blood orange zest
- ¼ cup (60 grams) blood orange juice
- 1¾ cups (219 grams) all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons (10 grams) baking powder
- 1 teaspoon (3 grams) kosher salt
- ½ cup (112 grams) vegetable oil
- Blood Orange Glaze (recipe follows)
- Garnish: halved blood orange slices
- Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). Spray an 9×5-inch loaf pan with baking spray with flour. Line pan with parchment paper, letting additional lengthen over sides of pan. Spray as soon as extra.
- Inside the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat sugar, bitter cream, eggs, and orange zest and juice at medium velocity until combined, 3 to 4 minutes, stopping to scrape sides of bowl.
- In a medium bowl, whisk collectively flour, baking powder, and salt. In the reduction of mixer velocity to low. Step-by-step add flour mixture to bitter cream mixture, beating merely until combined. Add oil in a gradual, common stream, beating until combined. Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Bake until golden brown and a wooden select inserted in coronary heart comes out clear, 35 to 40 minutes. Let cool in pan for 5 minutes. Take away from pan, and let cool totally on a wire rack. Drizzle with Blood Orange Glaze. Garnish with blood oranges, if desired.
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Blood Orange Glaze
- Blood Orange Straightforward Syrup (recipe follows)
- 1 cup (120 grams) confectioners’ sugar
- In a small bowl, whisk collectively Blood Orange Straightforward Syrup and confectioners’ sugar until clear.
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Blood Orange Straightforward Syrup
- ¼ cup (50 grams) granulated sugar
- ¼ cup (60 grams) water
- 1 blood orange, zested and sectioned
- In a small saucepan, convey sugar, ¼ cup (60 grams) water, and orange zest and sections to a boil over medium-high heat. Let boil for 5 minutes. In the reduction of heat to low, and simmer for 5 minutes. Take away from heat, and let cool. Strain mixture by means of a fine-mesh sieve, discarding solids. Cowl and refrigerate for as a lot as 2 weeks.
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