This Blood Orange Cake Recipe is a quick and easy dessert. A delicate cake made with fresh blood orange and topped with blood orange glaze. Enjoy a slice with your afternoon tea!
I just love the vibrant color of blood oranges. They tend to have a slightly different flavor that traditional oranges. A mild, fruitier flavor.
My daughter loves anything blood orange. Mostly because she is a creepy kid that like the idea of drinking the blood of an orange. We call them vampire oranges! She’s a character.
But really it is just fun to sound like a fancy foodie and tell people that you made a Blood Orange Cake. Even though it is super simple. For whatever reason using blood oranges in a recipe makes it seem so much more sophisticated.
I blame Bon Appétit and Saveur Magazine.
Usually blood orange cake is topped with slices of fresh blood oranges for dramatic effect. While that does make for a gorgeous presentation, I hate having to remove orange slices before eating a piece of cake. Plus it makes it difficult to cut.
But if you are wanting to garnish the cake a bit, add a few slices.
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Glazed Blood Orange Cake
Ingredients
Cake
- 1½ Cups All-Purpose Flour
- 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 Cup Butter - softened
- 1 Cup Sugar
- 2 Large Eggs
- 1/3 Cup Blood Orange Juice, about 1½ oranges
- 1/4 Cup Whole Milk
- Zest of 1 Blood Orange
Glaze
- 1 Cup Powdered Sugar
- 2 Tablespoons Blood Orange Juice
- Zest of 1 Blood Orange
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat oven to 350°F
- Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
- Cream butter and sugar.
- Mix in eggs, milk and juice.
- Slowly mix in dry ingredients.
- Stir in zest.
- Spread batter evenly into a round 8x2 inch cake pan that has been sprayed with nonstick.
- Bake on center rack for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick can be inserted and removed clean.
- Remove from oven. Carefully remove cake from pan and allow to cool on racks.
Glaze
- Thoroughly mix glaze ingredients until smooth.
- Pour on top of cooled cake and spread to the edges.
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I adore blood oranges! This cake looks absolutely delicious! Yummy yummy 🙂
In college I spent a year in Austria. On a trip through Italy I literally lived on Blood Oranges, pears and Gelato. This looks simply wonderful.
Sounds like a pretty awesome diet to me! 😀
I don’t eat blood oranges nearly enough – this cake looks divine and I must try it!