Semolina Cara Cara Orange Cake

[elleng]

Candied Orange Peel with Syrup Topping:

Ingredients:

1 cup sugar
3/4 cup orange blossom honey
3 Tbsp. green cardamom pods, crushed
1 Cara Cara orange, thinly sliced
Directions:

1. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Bring sugar, honey, cardamom and 3 cups water to a boil in a medium heavy saucepan, stirring until sugar dissolves. Add orange slices.

2. Reduce heat to medium-low; simmer, turning orange slices occasionally until tender and syrup is reduced to 3 1/4 cups, about 40 minutes.

3. Arrange orange slices in a single layer on prepared baking sheet; remove cardamom pods and seeds. Strain syrup.

DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover syrup and orange slices separately; chill. Return orange slices to room temperature and rewarm syrup slightly before using.

Ingredients for Cake

½ cup plus 2 Tbsp. unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup plain yogurt (I used coconut milk yogurt, which was completely fine and delicious)
1 cup fine semolina PLUS 1 cup coarse semolina (or 2 cups coarse semolina)
⅓ cup milk or almond milk
1 tsp. baking powder
Directions for Cake

1. Preheat the oven to 350° F.

2. Place the butter in a small bowl and melt in the microwave. Set aside.

3. In a large mixing bowl, combine together the sugar and yogurt. Now add in the semolina, baking powder and milk. Finally stir in the melted butter and let the mixture sit briefly so that the butter is absorbed.

4. Transfer the semolina mixture into a lightly greased 9?-round cake pan or baking dish. Bake for about 40-45 minutes.

5. Pierce the hot cake all over with a metal skewer. Slowly drizzle 3/4 cup warm syrup all over. When syrup is absorbed, slowly pour 3/4 cup more syrup over the top. Reserve remaining syrup for serving. Let cake cool in pan on a wire rack. Once cool, run a thin knife around edge of pan to release cake. Remove pan sides. Arrange candied orange slices over top.

SOUNDS good to me; Bakers invited to my house, southern MD!!!

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[marble falls]

1. Sounds good. Need a navel orange and the cardimon seeds. I'll give it a try Saturday.

[elleng]

2. You MAY use 'just' a navel orange, but try Cara Cara if available where you are;

they're @ my grocery store now, and MUCH more tasty!

[marble falls]

3. I'm in Marble Falls. We have an HEB and a WalMart. Cara Caras are not on the menu! ...

... my thought is that because Cara Caras are believed to have spontaneously mutated from Navel oranges, that this is the best I am going to get.

Sure! Rub it in - you live in the big city!

[elleng]

4. TOO BAD!

They are among the several types of oranges @ my grocery store, southern MD, NOT big city, 60 miles from DC, and 80 miles from Baltimore!

[marble falls]

5. I do not believe it. I got Cara Cara oranges yesterday at the HEB. I baked the week's bread today, so Cara Car ...

... orange cake tomorrow - well sauce tomorrow, cake on Thursday.!

[elleng]

6. GREAT!

Have you tasted cara cara? I slice in half, then quarter slices, and eat them either standing or, more delicately, like hors d oeuvres as I watch TV.

[marble falls]

7. Haven't cut one yet.

[elleng]

8. Call when you do!!!

[marble falls]

9. It's a better orange and I do like oranges. the price is really reasonable, $2.68/lb with a dollar off ...

... staring the sauce now.

[elleng]

10. Good. Gonna have one soon,

alongside toast. Bought 2 yesterday, to join the others in my fridge as I 'enjoy' 4 'warm' rain days.

[marble falls]

11. I've had indifferent success with that flour. But the batter is very good and I have nice smelling cake half soaked ...

... going to put the last 3/4s on in fifteen minutes, dress, cover and chill for tonite.

Thanks for a recipe I'll be putting together again!