I looked up many, many blood orange cake recipes and when I found this one, I just knew.
The recipe developer is “East Meets Kitchen”, and you can watch me bake this cake here.
-Yields one cake which serves 8-
Please read my notes at the bottom of this recipe before you begin
Ingredients
Wet 1
1 tablespoon baking powder
6 tablespoons coconut milk
1 tablespoon cornstarch
Wet 2
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 blood orange, juiced
1/2 lemon, juiced
Dry
3/4 cups ground almonds or almond flour
1/4 cup coconut flour
1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons polenta or cornmeal
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/3 cup sugar (1/2 cup for sweeter cake)
1 – 2 blood oranges for decoration
Instructions
1. Pre-heat oven to 350°F
2. Generously grease a 23 – 24 cm (9 – 9.5inch) pan with oil. I used a coconut oil spray. Sprinkle pan with 2 – 3 tbsp of sugar. I used brown sugar.
3. Mix the Wet 1 ingredients and set aside. It might foam.
4. Mix the dry ingredients.
5. Pour the ingredients from Wet 2 into the dry ingredients starting with the olive oil.
6. Add the ingredients from Wet 1 and combine it all together.
7. Let the batter rest for 15 – 30 minutes.
8. Decorate your pan with sliced blood oranges. Place them directly on top of the sugar you sprinkled on the bottom of the pan.
9. Pour the batter into the pan and smooth the top with a spatula.
10. Bake for 25 – 30 minutes.
11. Let cool for 5 minutes and flip onto a plate.
12. Let cool completely before slicing. This is bolded because I was trying to get cute IG shots and my cake fell apart. That’s why I have so few good photos.
NOTES
This cake was absolutely delicious! Moist, flavorful, and with a good mouth feel.
– What I would do differently –
I wish I’d ground the cornmeal and brown sugar beforehand. Both were too coarse for my liking but were still good in the batter! I also added the juice of a leftover blood orange and I think it made the batter wetter than what I felt the original recipe looked like in the Youtube video. However, the cake is moist in general so don’t be alarmed by a too wet batter. Just bake a little bit longer and let cool completely.
