Sunday 24 October 2010

Orange made up cake.


I made this up. I wanted an orange cake - warm, fragrant, rich. Made some sponge, with Sauternes, canditi, orange zest, vanilla.
Then thought I'd use up the oranges - filleted them, kept the juice, made some caramel, poured it over, then placed half the cake over. Only had apricot jam in the house, so put that in the middle. Then tipped the whole thing up the right way.
it looks beautiful! So in the end we've got - perfumed sauternes orangey vanilla-ey cake, sharp fresh oranges surrounded in crunchy caramel on top. Some of the orange juice has seeped into the cake which works well - but the apricot jam is too sweet! we needed marmalade - or even better some cheesecakey type filling, something smooth to carry some orange flavour.
I think this has a halloween feel - crunchy sweeties of the caramel and the orange colour is pretty autumnal.

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