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Blood Orange Pound Cake

INGREDIENTS
Topping
2 Tbsp unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
3 Tbsp brown sugar
1/2 blood orange, sliced thinly

Cake
1 1/2 Cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp Kosher Salt
3 tsp Green Cardamom, Ground
1 Cup sugar
4 eggs
1/4 cup whole milk
1 tsp Vanilla Extract, Mexican
3/4 Cup Mild Extra Virgin Olive Oil
zest of 2 blood oranges

STEPS
Make the topping. Preheat oven to 350°F. Arrange cold, chopped butter and brown sugar in the bottom of a loaf pan. Place in preheated oven for 5 minutes, or until the butter is melted. Brush butter on the sides of the pan. Arrange orange slices on the bottom and set aside.

Make the cake batter. In a small mixing bowl, sift together the dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, salt, and cardamom. In a medium bowl, beat together the sugar and eggs until mixture is pale yellow and thick. Add milk and vanilla, stirring until just combined. Next, add the olive oil, a little at a time,while mixing. Fold in dry ingredients until just combined.

Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 60 minutes. Check cake at 40 minutes to make sure the top isn’t overly brown. If so, cover top with foil for the remainder of the baking time. Cake is finished when a toothpick, inserted into the middle of the loaf pan, comes out clean.

Transfer cake from oven to a cooling rack and allow it to cool for ten minutes before unmounting it from the pan, turning it over onto a cake plate or platter. The buttery blood orange slices will now form the topping on the cake.

Wait for the loaf to cool completely before slicing.

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Honey Ginger Olive Oil Cake

INGREDIENTS
1/2 Cup plus 1 Tbsp sugar
2 large egg yolks
2 Tbsp Honey Ginger White Balsamic Vinegar
1/2 tsp Vanilla Paste
1 tsp Runamok Ginger Infused Maple Syrup
3/4 tsp fresh grated Ginger
3/4 Cup cake flour
3/4 Cup single-varietal mild rich olive oil, like Picual or Organic Arbosana
3 large egg whites
2 heavy Tbsp sugar
1/4 Cup powdered sugar
1 tsp Ginger powder
1 tsp Honey powder

STEPS
Preheat oven to 325° F.

Butter and flour a 9″ springform pan.

In a stand mixer using whisk attachment on medium speed, combine: sugar, egg yolks, Honey Ginger White Balsamic Vinegar, Vanilla Paste, Runamok Ginger-Infused Maple Syrup, and fresh grated ginger. Sift the cake flour, then gradually add it to the mixture.
Add the olive oil in a slow and steady stream. Batter will be very stiff. Transfer batter to a large bowl.

Clean and thoroughly dry the mixing bowl and whisk.  In the mixing bowl with the mixer on the highest speed, whisk together egg whites and sugar to form stiff peaks. (This is when the mixture will not fall over on itself when held upright. )

Gently fold the stiff egg whites into the cake batter in the big bowl until entirely incorporated into the batter. Be careful not to deflate the egg whites by over-mixing. Using a spatula, carefully transfer the cake batter into prepared springform pan.

Bake cake on center rack of oven approximately 20 – 25 minutes, until the middle of the cake registers 203°F on an instant-read thermometer.

Remove pan from oven and allow to cool on metal rack. Cake will fall and pull from sides of pan. Don’t worry! –  this is the desired result.

Mix together the powdered sugar, Ginger powder, and Honey powder. Sift sugar mixture over the cooled cake.

Serving suggestion: This dessert is excellent served with macerated or pickled fruits.

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Pride Spiced Cupcakes

INGREDIENTS

FOR THE CUPCAKES:
1 Cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more shortening for pans
1-1/2 Cups all-purpose flour
1-1/2 tsp coarse salt
1/2 tsp ground korintje cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground cardamom
1 Cup packed light-brown sugar
2 large eggs
1/2 Cup buttermilk

FOR THE GLAZE:
1-3/4 Cups confectioners’ (powdered) sugar
4 Tbsp orange juice
Food coloring (optional)

Rainbow sprinkles (also optional)

STEPS:

Make cupcakes: Preheat oven to 350°F, with the racks arranged in upper and lower thirds (so you can fit in more than one pan at a time). Lightly butter 48 mini-muffin cups. In a bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients: flour, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cardamom.

In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat together the softened butter and brown sugar, on medium-high speed, until mixture is light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. While the mixer is going, add the in eggs, one at a time, scraping down sides of bowl as needed. With the mixer on low, add the dry ingredient mixture in 3 additions, alternating the flour with two additions of milk. Beat well after each addition.

Transfer batter to the greased muffin tins by heaping tablespoonfuls. Bake cupcakes about 15 minutes, or until they look golden brown at edges. A toothpick, inserted in center of a cake, comes out clean. Rotate the pans once during the baking time.

Remove muffin pans from oven and allow the cupcakes to cool in the pans, 5 minutes, before transfering cupcakes to wire racks to cool completely.

Make glaze: In a bowl, whisk together the juice and confectioners’ sugar, beating mixture until frosting is smooth. Add 1 to 2 drops food coloring to the glaze if a colorful topping desired. Make sure to thoroughly mix the coloring throughout the the frosting. Spoon glaze over the cooled cakes.

For an extra festive touch, sprinkle glazed cupcakes with rainbow sprinkles. 🙂

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All about pound cake!

Almond_pound_cake,_angled_profileBecause March 4 is National Pound Cake Day, this seemed like a great week to feature the longtime favorite dessert.

Perhaps it should be called Four-Pound Cake. The dessert is just like its name sounds — a buttery cake that is traditionally made with a pound of each of its four main ingredients: flour, butter, eggs, and sugar.

Even though they may sometimes be made with smaller quantities of the key ingredients, you can call any cake made with that 1 to 1 to 1 to 1 ratio of butter, egg, sugar and flour a pound cake. From there, the “rules” for pound cake vary. Some are baked in big Bundt pans, others in smaller loaf pans. Some pound cakes are served with an icing or sweet glaze, some have nuts, chocolate, or fruits inside, and still others are just straight-ahead “naked” pound cakes — with no added ingredients or embellishments.

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Almond Pound Cake with Strawberry Topping

INGREDIENTS
Cake
8 oz. cream cheese, room temperature
1-1/2 Cups unsalted butter, room temperature (3 sticks)
3 Cups granulated sugar
3 Cups cake flour, sifted after measuring
1/2 tsp Salt
1 tsp Vanilla Paste
1 tsp Almond Extract
6 jumbo eggs (or 7 large eggs)

Topping
2 lbs fresh strawberries (sliced)
3 Tbsp CaraCara Orange-Vanilla Balsamic Vinegar
3 Tbsp Blood Orange Fused Olive Oil
2 Tbsp Demerara Sugar

STEPS
For the pound cake: Preheat oven to 300° F.  Grease and flour a large (12 Cup) Bundt pan or two loaf pans.  Fit your stand mixer with the paddle attachment. Combine the three sticks of butter and the cream cheese, beating on the lowest speed until mixture is smooth.

Add the sugar to the bowl, and beat until batter becomes light and fluffy. Add the vanilla paste, then the almond extract and salt. Beat briefly after each addition until ingredient is just incorporated.

Alternate adding one of the eggs, then a little of the flour, beating after each step just until the yellow of the yolk disappears and the flour is incorporated. Try to not over beat the batter at this point.

Use a rubber spatula to scrape the buttery mixture from the sides of the mixing bowl needed. Remove bowl from under the mixer, scrape the batter from the beaters, and fold the contents of the bowl a few times, pulling up the batter from the bottom of the bowl.

Transfer the batter into the prepared pan(s) and smooth the surface to distribute the batter evenly throughout the pan. Bake at 300° for 1 hour and 45 minutes. Pound cake is done when a toothpick, inserted into the middle of the pan, comes out clean.

Remove cake from oven and allow the cake to cool completely, preferably on a wire cooling rack (to allow air to circulate under and over the warm pan), before carefully inverting onto a serving plate. Store leftovers, if there are any, in an airtight container for up to five days.

For the topping: Mix the topping ingredients together in a generously-sized bowl and allow mixture to macerate (“get juicy”) while the cake bakes.

Once the cake is cooled and ready to serve, slice cake and serve with a couple tablespoons of topping on each plate.

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