Yoghurt cake with blood orange icing

bake Baking sweet
Total: 55 min. | Active: 15 min.
vegetarian

Winter is the time for citrus fruit, and blood oranges are the most exquisite of them all. They smell divine, are juicy and make a great ingredient for desserts. Simple desserts for at home as an afternoon treat with friends. If you like the smell of oranges, you can use the zest of two oranges instead of one for this recipe. To extract the full aroma and the essential oils from the zest, add some sugar to the zest and rub it between your hands. The sugar will turn orange and absorb the full aroma of the zest. If you don’t have a mixer, you can easily make this cake using an electric whisk.

Recipe by:
Sarah - Fragola & Limone

Ingredients

for 10 pieces

Cake mixture
110 g sugar
1  blood orange, rinsed with hot water, dabbed dry, grated zest
75 g butter, soft
1 tsp vanilla paste
1 pinch salt
2  eggs
150 g white flour
1 parcel baking powder (approx. 8 g)
75 g plain yoghurt
Icing
150 g icing sugar
5 tbsp blood orange juice
½ tsp vanilla paste

How it's done

Cake mixture

Put the sugar and blood orange zest in a bowl and rub it between your fingers. Add the butter, vanilla paste and salt, beat using the whisk on a mixer. Whisk in the eggs and continue to beat until the mixture becomes lighter in colour. Combine the flour and baking powder, mix into the batter along with the yoghurt. Transfer the cake mixture to the prepared tin.

To bake

Approx. 40 mins. in an oven preheated to 170 °C (convection). Remove from the oven, allow to cool slightly, remove from the tin and leave to cool on a rack.

Icing

Mix the icing sugar with the blood orange juice and the vanilla to create a thick icing, spread on top of the cake, leave to dry.

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