Clementine cake

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 1 cake, you will need:

• 1 200 g clementines
• 2 1 tablespoon water
• 3 4 eggs
• 4 100 g butter
• 5 190 g caster sugar
• 6 10 g Vanilla sugar
• 7 200 g flour
• 8 5 g baking powder
• 9 3 pinches fine (or table) salt
• Total weight: 920 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
20 min.	50 min.	1 hour 7 min.

Step by step recipe

• 1:

  Clementines

  
  Wash, then cut off and discard the ends (top and bottom) of 200 g clementines.
  If possible, choose organic clementines, as both fruit and rind are used, and Corsican clementines for their extraordinary taste.
• 2: Put them in a bowl with 1 tablespoon water, film or cover...
• 3: ...and place in a microwave oven on maximum power, 3 times 1 minute, with a 1-minute pause in between.
  The clementines will cook, become very soft, and give off a little juice, which should be stored for future use.
• 4:

  The cake dough

  
  Preheat oven to 180°C (360°F).
  Pour 4 eggs and the melted 100 g butter into a blender, then add the cooked clementines (set the juice aside).
  Blend until smooth.
• 5: While the mixer is running, gently pour in 190 g caster sugar and 10 g Vanilla sugar.
• 6: Blend until smooth.
• 7: Pour the contents of the mixer into a bowl, then add 200 g flour, 5 g baking powder, 3 pinches fine (or table) salt and whisk thoroughly.
  Note: Don't add the flour directly to the mixer, as the dough will be too thick.
• 8: Pour the batter into a buttered cake tin.
  If you want your cake to be wide open when baked, follow this advice.
• 9: Bake for around 45 minutes at 180°C (360°F), checking after 40 minutes.
• 10:

  The clementine syrup

  
  In the meantime, weigh out the clementine juice obtained during cooking, reheat in the microwave, add the same weight of caster sugar, and mix well.
• 11: Brush the cake with the clementine syrup as it comes out of the oven and into the tin.
• 12: Leave to cool before unmolding and serving.

Remarks

You can also use other citrus fruits, such as lemons, oranges, grapefruit, kumquats or others.
If you don't feel like punching the cake with the syrup, add the juice with the clementines to the mixer in step 4.

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