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Sticky Clementine Cake

Sticky Clementine Cake - It's moist, it's zesty and it's completely delicious. Dessert worthy with a blob of crème fraîche but it's also perfect on its own.
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A great way to revitalise clementines that are beyond their best but also a perfect breath of fresh air in your baking repertoire. Easy too. Be sure to allow enough time to boil the clementines and let them cool before you start to make the cake.

Tweaked just a smidgen from a recipe in Delicious magazine

Ingredients

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  • 5 clementines
  • Vegetable oil/butter for greasing
  • 275g (10oz) caster sugar
  • 300g (11oz) ground almonds
  • Seeds from 10 green cardamom pods, crushed slightly
  • 1 tsp baking powder (choose a gluten free brand if required)
  • 2 tsps vanilla extract
  • 6 eggs, beaten
  • Juice of 1 lemon

Instructions

  1. Put 3 of the clementines in a pan of water and bring to the boil, simmering for 2 hours. Make sure the water is topped up as necessary. Drain the water away and leave the boiled clementines to cool. Cut the boiled fruits in half and blitz them (skin and all) in a small food processor.
  2. Preheat the oven to 180°C / 160°C Fan / 350°F (gas mark 4). Grease a 23cm (9") springform cake tin and line the base with baking parchment.
  3. Put 225g (8oz) of the caster sugar, the ground almonds, the crushed cardamom seeds and the baking powder into a large bowl and combine. Add the blitzed clementines, the vanilla extract and the eggs to the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. Now transfer the mixture to the prepared tin and bake in the oven for 50-60 minutes.
  4. While the cake is baking, prepare the drizzle by squeezing the juice from the remaining 2 clementines into a small pan. Add the remaining 50g (2oz) of caster sugar and the lemon juice and simmer gently for about 3 minutes so that the sugar is fully dissolved.
  5. Remove the cake from the oven and straight away pierce the top a few times with a skewer. Drizzle over the citrus syrup and allow the cake to cool completely in the tin. Serve as it is or with a blob of crème fraîche.

Keywords: Christmas, alternative, entertaining

Find it online: https://marmaladeandme.com/sticky-clementine-cake/