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Mandarin and orange blossom cake

Mandarin and orange blossom cake

a French girl cuisine
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
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.