Mandarin and orange blossom cake

With this cake, this is a long story. I proposed you for another foodista challenge (check the French version to learn more about it) orange cake in jar. My best friend is a big fan of this cake. A really big fan. However she had troubles to make my orange cake, because she was using a single mold and not jars.

So I have decided to make another one and instead of orange, I used mandarin and one larger oven dish.

Mandarin and orange blossom cake

a French girl cuisine

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Prep Time 15 mins

Cook Time 25 mins

Total Time 40 mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine French

Servings 6 -8

Ingredients

  

• 100 gr. of butter + a bit more for the mold
• 110 gr. od sugar
• 2 eggs
• 5 mandarins or 2 dl. of juice
• 1,5 teaspoons of blossom flower
• 2 teaspoons of cointreau alcohol with orange flavor
• zest of one mandarin
• 7 gr. of baking powder
• 100 gr. of flour
• 100 gr. of powdered sugar
• 1 tablespoon of blossom flower
• 2 tablespoons of cointreau

Material

• mold 25 cm.

Instructions

 

• Remove butter from the fridge at least 30 minutes beforehand. Mix until you get a kind of paste.
• Preheat oven to 180°C.
• Add sugar and egg yolk. Mix.
• Pour half of mandarin juice (1 dl.), 1,5 teaspoons of blossom flower and 2 teaspoons of cointreau. Mix.
• Add flour, zest and baking powder.
• Beat egg white until foamy and incorporate to the mix.
• Butter mold, pour preparation and bake for 25 minutes.
• In the meantime, make the sirup. Bring to a boil the rest of the mandarin juice (1 dl.) with powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon of blossom flower and 2 tablespoons of cointreau.
• Pour on top of the warm cake and leave to cool.
• The cake will absorbe all the liquid.