Blood Orange Syrup Cake

By maredan

Ingredients

• Cake
• 1/2 * 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
• 3/4 * 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 * 2 eggs
• 1 * 1 tablespoon blood orange zest
• 1 1/2 * 1 1/2 cups ground almonds
• 1 * 1 cup fine semolina
• 1/4 * 1/4 cup blood orange juice
• Syrup
• 1 * 1 cup blood orange juice
• 1/2 * 1/2 cup sugar
• 3 * 3 tablespoons orange liqueur (optional)
• Chantilly
• 1 * 1 cup whipping cream
• 3 * 3 tablespoons reserved blood orange syrup

Details

Servings 6

Preparation

Step 1

To Assemble

1. For cake, preheat oven to 350° F. Grease a 6-inch cake pan and line bottom with parchment. Beat butter and sugar together until smooth. Add eggs, one at a time, blending well after each addition. Stir in orange zest. In a separate bowl, combine ground almonds and semolina. Add almond mixture alternately with orange juice until all ingredients are incorporated. Scrape into prepared tin and bake for 40 minutes, until a tester inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean.
2. For syrup, bring orange juice, sugar and orange liqueur up to a simmer. Simmer syrup for about 10 minutes, until it reduces a little and thickens slightly. Pull off the heat and allow to cool a little.
3. When cake comes out of the oven, let cool for 15 minutes. Pour half of the syrup over the cake while still in its pan. Let sit 5 minutes. Turn cake out onto a plate and brush remaining syrup over, reserving 3 Tbsp of syrup for chantilly. Let cool before slicing.
4. For chantilly, whip cream to soft peaks and fold in reserve blood orange syrup.
5. To plate, slice a piece of segment and dollop a spoonful of chantilly over top.
6. Yield: 1 6-inch cake.