Grapefruit & poppy seed cake

Name: Grapefruit & poppy seed cake
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 175 grams butter, softened, plus extra for the tin; 300 grams plain flour, plus a little extra for dusting; 300 grams caster sugar; 3 larges eggs; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 225 milliliters soured cream; 2 zest grapefruit, plus 3 tbsp juice; 4 teaspoons poppy seed, toasted; 100 grams caster sugar; 25 grams butter; 1 zest grapefruit, plus 4 tbsp juice

Grapefruit & poppy seed cake is a lacto ovo vegetarian dessert. This recipe serves 8. One serving contains 605 calories, 8g of protein, and 29g of fat. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 1 hour. If you have butter, butter, caster sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas

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Oven

Butter then flour a 1.5-litre Bundt or ring tin. Beat together the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, followed by the vanilla, flour, baking powder, soured cream, grapefruit zest and juice, and toasted poppy seeds.

Ingredients you will need

Grapefruit Zest

Baking Powder

Sour Cream

Poppy Seeds

Vanilla

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Juice

Sugar

Egg

Scrape into the tin and level it off.

Bake for 40-55 mins, depending on the shape of your tin, until a skewer poked in comes out clean. Leave in the tin to cool a little while you make the icing.

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Icing

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Oven

Skewers

Gently heat the caster sugar, butter and grapefruit juice to melt the butter. Bring to the boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 3 mins.

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Grapefruit Juice

Caster Sugar

Butter

Remove from the heat, stir in the zest and cool for about 10 mins until thickened and syrupy.

Turn the warm cake out onto a cooling rack and brush half the glaze over the cake. Spoon the rest over, little by little, so it sinks in.

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Glaze

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Wire Rack

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Oven

Skewers

Wire Rack

Ingredients

Servings:

175grams

butter, softened, plus extra for the tin 300grams

plain flour, plus a little extra for dusting 300grams

caster sugar 3larges

eggs 1teaspoon

vanilla extract 2teaspoons

baking powder 225milliliters

soured cream 2

zest grapefruit, plus 3 tbsp juice 4teaspoons

poppy seed, toasted 100grams

caster sugar 25grams

butter 1

zest grapefruit, plus 4 tbsp juice

Recommended wine: Cream Sherry, Moscato Dasti, Port

Cake works really well with Cream Sherry, Moscato d'Asti, and Port. A common wine pairing rule is to make sure your wine is sweeter than your food. Delicate desserts go well with Moscato d'Asti, nutty desserts with cream sherry, and caramel or chocolate desserts pair well with port. You could try NV Solera Cream Sherry. Reviewers quite like it with a 4.5 out of 5 star rating and a price of about 17 dollars per bottle.