Blood orange upside-down cake
8-10
Easy
30 minutes
1 hour
You may mistake this citrus fruit for regular oranges but once you slice through the skin, you’ll be wowed by the crimson colour of the citrus flesh. Blood oranges are slightly more tart than regular oranges, with lingering floral notes – many have compared the taste to a cross between a raspberry and an orange. Use your box or tray of blood oranges to make this light, gluten-free cake with a syrupy blood-orange mosaic top that delivers a subtle sweetness that tastes even lovelier than it looks.
Ingredients
Method
- 2 blood oranges, peeled and sliced into rounds
- 60 g honey, plus 1 T
- 75 g butter, softened
- 1 blood orange, zested and juiced
- 3 large free-range eggs, separated
- 100 g almond flour
- 90 g polenta
- 200 g fresh ricotta, drained
- salt, a pinch
- 110 g caster sugar
- raw shelled pistachios, roughly chopped, to decorate
- crème fraîche, for serving For the syrup:
- 150 g caster sugar
- 2 blood oranges, juiced
Method
Ingredients
1. Preheat the oven to 160°C and line a 20 cm round cake tin with baking paper. Layer the blood orange slices in the cake tin in two layers. Drizzle with 1 T honey and set aside.
2. Beat the butter, remaining honey and orange zest with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add the egg yolks one at a time, beating well between each addition.
3. Transfer to a large bowl, then fold in the almond flour, polenta, ricotta and orange juice.
4. Beat the egg whites and salt until soft peaks form, then gradually beat in the caster sugar until shiny.
5. Fold the egg whites into the ricotta mixture, then spoon the batter into the cake tin on top of the orange slices.
6. Smooth out the top and bake for 1 hour, or until a skewer comes out clean.
7. While the cake is baking, make the syrup. Heat the caster sugar and orange juice in a saucepan over medium-high heat until the sugar dissolves. Bring to the boil and cook until a light syrup forms. Once the cake comes out of the oven, pour over the syrup and allow to cool.
8. Invert the cake onto a serving plate and peel off the baking paper. Decorate with the pistachios and serve with crème fraiche.
Learn more about blood oranges here.
Photography: Shavan Rahim
Videography: Romy Wilson
Recipes and production: Jacqueline Burgess
Food assistant: Saxon Angelica Kinnear
Don’t delay! Woolworths’ blood oranges are available for a limited time. Make the most of this season by adding the crimson-coloured citrus to salads, bakes, roasts and cocktails.
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