This mandarin cake has a strong taste of mandarin and it’s very tasteful! Furthermore, it’s easy to make and deserves the detour :-) It comes from a Greek recipe (see reference below). The Greek recipe it’s a video recipe where you can find the steps :-)
Give it a try and you will be pleasantly surprised!
In two words:
“Everything is fragile: after having lived for a little bit, we do not know if we lived well or not”.
difficulty – easy
preparation– 30’
cooking - 45’ (for the cake) + 25’ (for the syrup)
serves - 10 slices (Cake mold of 23cm in length)
Ingredients
for the cake
- 80gr of butter in room temperature
- 100gr of caster sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 125ml of mandarin juice
- ½ teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder
- 200gr of all-purpose flour
- 1 mandarin
for the syrup
- 125gr of caster sugar
- 125gr of mandarin juice
- 1 mandarin
Steps
before starting
- The day before (or several hours before) take the butter out of the refrigerator to soften it
for the cake
- Preheat the oven at 180°C
- Butter the mold and cover it flour but remove the exceedance of flour
- Wash the mandarin, cut it in four, and keep the skin on
- Remove the seeds (if there are any)
- Add the water into a casserole and turn the heat on
- When it starts to boil, add the pieces of mandarin and let them boil for 2 minutes
- When the 2 minutes have passed, remove the mandarin
- Repeat the same process 3 times, starting from cold water
- Leave the mandarin to chill a little bit
- Mix it up with an electric chopper
- In a bowl, add the flour and the baking powder and stir with a whisk
- In a another bowl, add the butter and start beat it with an electric hand mixer
- Add by batches the sugar and continue to beat
- Add the eggs, one by one, and beat after each addition
- Add the mandarin juice, and continue to beat
- Add the vanilla extract, and continue to beat
- Add the pieces of mandarin that you have mixed in the electric chopper, and continue to beat
- Add by batches the mix flour/baking powder and stir everything together with a maryse
- Pour the batter into the cake mold
- Bake for 45’ (to check if it’s ready, you need to put a knife in the center of the cake and see if the blade comes out clean)
- Move to the assembly steps
for the syrup
- Peel the mandarin and separate the slices
- Remove the seeds (if there are any)
- Add into a casserole:
- the mandarin juice
- the water
- the slices of mandarin
- In very low heat, stir constantly the syrup with a maryse or a spoon for about 25’, it will become syrupy
bring it all together
- Leave the cake and the syrup to cold a little bit before continuing
- Remove the cake from the mold and place it into a plate
- Pour on top the syrup and decorate with the slices of mandarin
- Enjoy!
Inspiration
The recipe of Vaggelis Driskas as it was proposed to me by a friend (the recipe in the video is in Greek but you can see the steps)
o-o C'est si bon ! o-o
- Categories: Desserts, Recipes
- Ingredients: butter, vanilla extract, flour, baking powder, mandarine, eggs, caster sugar
