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Blood Orange Upside Down cake

Incredibly flavorful cake that showcases these vibrant blood oranges that get paired beautifully with fennel. 

Keyword blood orange, cake, citrus
Servings 10
Author Anagha

Ingredients

Topping

  • 3 Tbsp Unsalted Butter
  • 32 Gms Brown Sugar about 1/3 cup
  • 32 Gms Sugar about 1/3 cup
  • 2 Tsp Lemon Juice
  • 2 Blood Oranges
  • 1 Tsp Fennel Seeds

Dry Ingredients

  • 65 Gms Corn Meal (fine)
  • 70 Gms Almond flour
  • 60 Gms APF about 1/2 cup
  • 8 gms Baking Powder about 1 1/2 Tsp
  • 2 gms Sea salt about 1/2 tsp
  • 1 Tsp Orange Zest

Wet Ingredients

  • 2 Sticks Unsalted Butter
  • 200 gms Granulated Sugar about 1 Cup
  • 4 Eggs, at room temperature I used plain whole milk
  • 1/3 Cup Yogurt
  • 1/2 Tsp Star Anise Powder

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 F

  2. Grease a 9 inch cake pan

  3. In a small sauce pan, melt the 3 Tbsp butter. Add brown sugar, white sugar  and heat till the sugar melts. Mix the lemon juice and pour the mixture in the greased pan

  4. Sprinkle some fennel seeds into the pan

  5. Using mandolin or sharp knife, thinly slice the blood oranges( and  orange and kumquat if using)

  6. Arrange the slices in the pan on top of the butter sugar mixture. Try to cover the entire base, I used small kumquats in those spaces

Making the batter

  1. Mix the corn meal, almond meal, flour, baking powder, salt, ground star anise and orange zest. Give it a quick whisk.

  2. In a bowl cream the remaining butter & white sugar till pale in color

  3. Add one egg at a time to the creamed butter-sugar and continue to whisk. 

  4. Once all the eggs are added, add the yogurt and give it a stir

  5. Gently fold in the dry flour mixture 

  6. Pour the batter over the blood orange slices 

  7. Bake for 40-50 mins until the tooth pick inserted comes out clean

  8. Let the cake rest for 10 min. After 10 mins, turn it on a serving plate. Wait for a few minutes to tap on the bottom of the pan to release the cake.

  9. Serve with freshly whipped cream

Recipe Notes

  1. I have tried to give measurements in cups and spoons but to get accurate results, I would highly recommend using the weighing scale
  2. Make sure you arrange the orange slices very close to each and overlapping a bit, when they bake they shrink