Greek Olive Oil Citrus Cakes
All the Citrus in Crete, GR are so Sweet this time of the year!
Today’s recipe, is the one from Lolo (@lolotambouille). These are very delicious and all the citruses bring so much flavor to the cake. Of course, you can find Lauren’s recipe right HERE!
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Enjoy & Bon Appetit!
As always, you will find the Step-by-Step Video below the recipe.
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Greek Olive Oil Citrus Cakes
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 Lemon (Zest & 2 Tbsp Lemon Juice)
- 1 Orange (1/4 cup Orange Juice Only)
- 1/2 Pink grapefruit (Zest & 3 Tbsp Grapefruit Juice)
- 3 Tbsp (40 g) butter (Melted)
- 5 eggs
- 1/2 cup (100 g) Demerara sugar (Original recipe calls for 2/3 cups (140g))
- 2 2/3 cups (335 g) flour (sifted)
- 2 1/2 tsp (12 g) baking powder
- 3 tbsp (65 g) Greek Honey
- 2/3 cup (145 g) Greek Olive oil
CITRUS GLAZE
- 1/4 cup (30 g) confectioners sugar
- 1 tbsp (15 g) lemon juice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F/180C.
- Grate the zest from your Lemon and Grapefruit. Set aside. Using the citrus press, collect the Lemon juice, Orange juice and squeeze the Grapefruit juice as indicated. Set aside.
- Place butter in a small sauce pan and heat on low until melted. Set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, whisk the eggs and Sugar together.
- Add the cooled melted butter, the honey, olive oil, citrus zest and juice. Mix well.
- Then, incorporate the flour and baking powder.
- Place your Volcan Flexipan® Tray on the top of your Medium Perforated Baking Sheet.
- Bake for 20 minutes at 350F/180C. (Every oven heats differently, monitor your cakes from 18min)
- Once your Greek Olive Oil Citrus Cakes are out of the oven, let them cool down for about 10min. Then, transfer them onto your cooling rack.
CITRUS GLAZE
- In a bowl, whisk together confectioners' sugar and lemon juice. Mix until combined. IMPORTANT: Add 1/2 tsp of lemon juice at a time to make it less thick. Add 1/2 tsp of Confectioners' Sugar at a time to make it less runny.
- Once your Cakes have completely cooled down, drizzle the lemon glaze. Top it off with some lemon zest and small wedges of grapefruit. Enjoy & Bon Appétit!
Video
Special Notes
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