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Grapefruit moelleux

The french love their "moelleux" — moist fondant cakes, often with a melting centre. These little mini-moelleux are flavoured with grapefruit.

The grapefruit flavour is brought out fully by using a combination of juice, zest and candied peel.

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Last modified on: March 24^th 2019

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For 40 pieces, you will need:

1 200 ml caster sugar
2 1 grapefruit
3 90 ml Noisette butter
4 200 ml egg
5 50 ml cream
6 156 ml flour
7 2 ml baking powder
8 20 ml Candied grapefruit peel (optional)
9 13.1 ml Pearl sugar (optional)

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

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Zest 1 grapefruit into 200 ml 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.

Stage 2 - 2 min.

Whisk together the sugar with the zest and 200 ml egg.

Stage 3 - 2 min.

Add 50 ml cream and 50g of grapefruit juice.

Mix well.

Stage 4 - 3 min.

Sieve 156 ml flour and 2 ml baking powder together into the mixture.

Stage 5 - 1 min.

Mix again.

Stage 6 - 1 min.

Pour in 90 ml Noisette butter.

Stage 7 - 1 min.

Mix again.

You cake batter is now ready.

Preheat the oven to 390°F (200°C).

Stage 8 - 7 min.

Pour into small moulds (non-stick if possible) or tins of about 2 oz (50 g) size, or larger, depending on what you have.

Stage 9 - 20 min.

Bake for about 20 minutes (for smaller cakes).

Stage 10 - 15 min.

Leave to cool on a wire rack.

Stage 11 - 5 min.

For an even better flavour, brush the cakes with a little citrus syrup and leave this to soak in.

Stage 12 - 5 min.

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...

Keeping

Several days in the fridge, covered with plastic film.

Source

Based on a recipe by Gaëtan Paris.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,325 Kcal or 9,734 Kj	40 gr	432 gr	113 gr
116 %	15 %	41 %	17 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
237 Kcal or 992 Kj	4 gr	44 gr	11 gr
12 %	2 %	4 %	2 %

Per piece
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
58 Kcal or 243 Kj	1 gr	11 gr	3 gr
3 %	<1 %	1 %	<1 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk, Egg, Gluten

How much will it cost?

For 40 pieces : 2.21 €
Per piece : 0.06 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Spinach and ricotta ravioli, Scrambled eggs with langoustines and asparagus tips., Stuffed cabbage leaves, Hamburgers, Chestnut and hazelnut biscuits, ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Apricot jam with vanilla, Apple custard tart, Blackcurrant liqueur, Rhubarb tart, Mouna, ... All
	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Cramique, Pistachio madeleines, Provençal colombier for Pentecost, Chocolate rolls (petits pains), Ciabatta, ... All
	Noisette butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chestnut cake, Pistachio "Financiers", Pancake batter, Lemon and lime cakes, Financier batter, ... All

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