Grapefruit moelleux

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 40 pieces, you will need:

• 1 200 g caster sugar
• 2 1 grapefruit
• 3 90 g Noisette butter
• 4 200 g Egg  ( How to... )
• 5 50 g cream
• 6 100 g flour
• 7 2 g baking powder
• 8 20 g Candied grapefruit peel (optional)
• 9 10 g Pearl sugar (optional)
• Total weight: 985 grams

Times:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
35 min.	15 min.	20 min.	1 hour 7 min.

Step by step recipe

1	Zest 1 grapefruit into 200 g caster sugar. Mix well, cover with plastic film and leave to rest for at least one hour, to allow the sugar to take up the grapefruit flavour. Note: You can prepare this sugar the day before. Add the zest of a lime, too, if you'd like a fuller citrus flavour.
2	Whisk together the sugar with the zest and 200 g Egg.
3	Add 50 g cream and 50g of grapefruit juice. Mix well.
4	Sieve 100 g flour and 2 g baking powder together into the mixture.
5	Mix again.
6	Pour in 90 g Noisette butter.
7	Mix again. You cake batter is now ready. Preheat the oven to 390°F (200°C).
8	Pour into small moulds (non-stick if possible) or tins of about 2 oz (50 g) size, or larger, depending on what you have.
9	Bake for about 20 minutes (for smaller cakes).
10	Leave to cool on a wire rack.
11	For an even better flavour, brush the cakes with a little citrus syrup and leave this to soak in.
12	If possible, decorate the cakes with a strip of candied peel and grains of pearl sugar.

Remarks

This moist cake can be made with other citrus fruits: orange, lemon, lime...

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