Orange pound cake with orange caramel sauce
Orange pound cake with orange caramel sauce recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- Vegetable cooking spray
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 large orange
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup buttermilk or sour milk, at room temperature
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup butter, softened, no substitutes
- 1 large egg
- 2 large egg whites
- Orange caramel sauce:
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
Recipe method:
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Lightly coat a 9 x 5 inch loaf pan with vegetable cooking spray.
- Sift together flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda in a medium bowl. Set aside.
- With vegetable peeler remove peel from orange. Coarsely chop.
- Cut orange in half and squeeze 1/2 cup juice.
- Process the 1 cup sugar and the orange peel in a food processor, pulsing until peel is finely chopped.
- Combine buttermilk, 1/4 cup of the orange juice and vanilla in a small glass measuring cup.
- Reserve remaining juice for caramel sauce.
- Beat butter and orange-sugar mixture in a large mixer bowl on medium-high speed until combined.
- Beat in egg and egg whites, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Reduce speed to low and gradually add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
- Spoon batter into prepared pan.
- Bake 35 to 40 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool in pan on wire rack 15 minutes.
- Invert cake and remove pan.
- Invert again and cool completely.
- Make orange caramel sauce:
- Combine water and the 1/4 cup sugar in a small saucepan.
- Stir with a wooden spoon until sugar is moistened.
- Bring to simmer over medium-low heat.
- Cover and simmer 2 to 3 minutes or until sugar dissolves.
- Uncover and cook 5 to 6 minutes, until sugar turns amber.
- Remove from heat and slowly stir in reserved orange juice. Mixture will bubble vigorously.
- Return to heat and cook, stirring, until sugar dissolves.
- Cool and serve with cake.
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