Blood Orange Cake

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Inspired by Blood Orange Season we decided to create a cake made with these seasonal delicacies and Get Loose ingredients.

Makes 8 generous slices

Ingredients

Cake

  • 2 large blood oranges

  • 200g sugar*

  • 3 large eggs*

  • 120ml olive oil *

  • 200g plain flour*

  • 50g ground almonds*

  • 2tsp baking powder*

  • ¼tsp fine salt*

Syrup

  • Juice of 1 blood orange

  • 2tbsp caster sugar*

To serve

  • Vanilla ice cream or yoghurt*

Method

  1. Heat oven to 170°C (fan 160°C)

  2. Grease and line a 23 cm round cake tin

  3. Finely zest both oranges

  4. Juice one orange (you’ll need ~80 ml for the cake)

  5. In a large bowl, whisk sugar and eggs until pale and slightly thick

  6. Slowly whisk in olive oil until glossy

  7. Stir in orange zest and 80 ml blood orange juice

  8. In a separate bowl, mix flour, ground almonds, baking powder, and salt

  9. Fold gently into the wet mixture until just combined

  10. Pour into tin, smooth the top

  11. Bake 45–50 minutes until golden and a skewer comes out clean

  12. Cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a rack

  13. Warm blood orange juice and sugar in a small pan until dissolved

  14. While cake is warm, poke holes with a skewer and spoon syrup over slowly

Serving

Serve warm with vanilla ice cream or yoghurt.