Clementine cake


Clementine cake
This easy-to-make clementine cake is an end-of-year delight for the clementine season.

It's a cake with a double clementine flavor: the whole fruit in the dough on the one hand, and a syrup made with their juice to punctuate it after baking on the other.
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Last modified on: January 6th 2025
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Times for this recipe
Preparation: 20 min.
Cooking: 50 min.
All in all: 1 hour 7 min.
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Stage 1 - 2 min.
Clementine cake

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.

Stage 2 - 2 min.
Clementine cake
Put them in a bowl with 1 tablespoon water, film or cover...

Stage 3 - 3 min.
Clementine cake
...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.

Stage 4 - 3 min.
Clementine cake

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.

Stage 5 - 2 min.
Clementine cake
While the mixer is running, gently pour in 190 g caster sugar and 10 g vanilla sugar.

Stage 6
Clementine cake
Blend until smooth.

Stage 7 - 3 min.
Clementine cake
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.

Stage 8 - 2 min.
Clementine cake
Pour the batter into a buttered cake tin.

If you want your cake to be wide open when baked, follow this advice.

Stage 9 - 45 min.
Clementine cake
Bake for around 45 minutes at 180°C (360°F), checking after 40 minutes.

Stage 10 - 3 min.
Clementine cake

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.

Stage 11 - 2 min.
Clementine cake
Brush the cake with the clementine syrup as it comes out of the oven and into the tin.

Stage 12
Clementine cake
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.
Keeping: 2 or 3 days in the fridge, protected by cling film.
Source: Home made.
Nutritional information
Proteins (gr)Carbohydrates (gr)Fats (gr)Energy value (in k-calories)Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe50 RDI=20 %410 RDI=40 %110 RDI=20 %2,610 RDI=130 %10,940 RDI: 130 %
Per 100 g4 RDI=2 %40 RDI=4 %10 RDI=2 %280 RDI=10 %1,190 RDI: 10 %
The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per day for a woman Change to a man
Possible allergens in this recipe: egg, Milk, Gluten
How much will it cost?
  • For 1 cake : 3.60 €

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