Name: Blood orange, blossom & pomegranate cake
Prep time: 35 min
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 2 h 20 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 6 blood oranges 3 whole, juice of 3; 250g pack butter softened; 50g clear honey plus 2 tbsp; 300g golden caster sugar; 200g self-raising flour; 100g ground almonds; 1 tsp baking powder; 4 large eggs; 1 tbsp orange blossom water plus 1 tsp; 140g full-fat Greek yogurt plus extra to serve; 1 small pomegranate halved

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Blood orange, blossom & pomegranate cake

Blood orange, blossom & pomegranate cake

Sarah Cook

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Serves 8 - 10

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Prep: 35 mins

Cook: 1 hr and 45 mins

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This stunning fruity bake has a whole orange whizzed into the batter, and is drizzled with a zingy, sticky syrup

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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6 blood oranges

3 whole, juice of 3
250g pack butter

softened
50g clear honey

plus 2 tbsp
300g golden caster sugar
200g self-raising flour
100g ground almonds
1 tsp baking powder
4 large eggs
1 tbsp orange blossom water

plus 1 tsp
140g full-fat Greek yogurt

plus extra to serve
1 small pomegranate

halved

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Nutrition: per serving (10)

kcal559
fat30g
saturates15g
carbs61g
sugars46g
fibre3g
protein9g
salt0.8g

Method

step 1

Cover 1 of the whole oranges with water in a saucepan and bring to the boil for a couple of mins. Get rid of the water and start again, this time simmering for 40 mins until the orange is really soft. When cool enough to handle, cut in half and remove all the pips. Can be done 1 day ahead.
step 2

Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and grease a 22cm round cake tin with a knob of the butter. Drizzle the 2 tbsp of honey over the base of the tin, then slice the remaining 2 whole oranges and arrange the slices over the honey.
step 3

Put the boiled orange in a food processor and whizz to a purée. Beat the softened butter, 200g of the sugar, the 50g honey, the flour, almonds, baking powder, eggs, 1 tbsp orange blossom water and yogurt until smooth. Stir in the puréed orange and scrape into the tin, being careful not to dislodge the fruit. Bake for 55 mins until a skewer poked into the centre comes out clean. Cool the cake for 10 mins in the tin, then turn out onto a serving plate.
step 4

Tip the blood orange juice, the remaining sugar and 1 tsp orange blossom water into a saucepan. Bubble for 5 mins until the syrup has thickened slightly. Remove the pomegranate seeds and stir them into the syrup while it cools. Enjoy the cake slightly warm or at room temperature, with spoonfuls of thick Greek yogurt and drizzled with syrup.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2015

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