Improvising life has it’s good sides and it’s bad sides. On the plus side, I live in Russia, on the minus side, I have the concentration span of a gold fish. Instructions bore me. So it will come to you, my lone reader, as no surprise that I have long shied away from the path of all that is delicate and baked, preferring the heat of the stove top instead.
Until today.
Today I decided to make these orange and cranberry muffins – minus the cranberries, the muffin tray, the canola oil and functional oven. And this is what happened…
A moist and crumbly cake topped with delightful deliciousness.
APRICOT & ORANGE BUCKWHEAT CAKE
Recipe
Ingredients:
Dry…
1 cup plain flour
2/3 cup brown sugar or preferred -cose
1 cup buckwheat flour
2.5 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 salt
Wet…
1 cup orange juice fresh squeezed orange
1/2 cup coconut oil (refined)
1 1/4 cup dry apricots soaked over night so they are nice and plump
1 wooden spoon apricot juice from soaking
Instructions
1- Before you start: Grease cake mould (I used a standard size medium tin with a hole in the middle a.K.a. a tube pan) and heat oven to 375°F
2 – Mix all dry ingredients
3- Make well in centre pour in all wet ingredients except apricots and their juice
4- Stir until dry ingredients are moist adding in apricots half way – Add spoon of apricot juice if not moist enough
5- Empty into greased try and gently press down until dough covers pan
6- Bake for about 20 – 30 min, until the knife point comes out ‘clean’ (no cake mix, but a little bit of moist residue is fine)
7- Remove from pan – careful, it must be treated with the same respect animals deserve.
8- Try and leave to cool on wire tray rack – or wooden chopping board if you are destitute like me
GRAPEFRUIT GLAZE
Ingredients:
1 pack of silken tofu
4 tsp of freshly squeezed grapefruit juice – orange works too
4 tablespoons brown sugar
Instructions:
1- Blend until smooth
2- Spread generously over cooled cake
3- Eat
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I read that first part as “the contraception span of a goldfish” which I had to ponder for a while. Anyway, you always post the best food — when it’s not so hot I want to make this!
:))))) this comment has made my day. Someone even asked me for the recipe at work. what a warm fuzzy feeling!! (I have been using my colleagues as testers, much to their delight …
It is better to keep it covered in a shady cool spot of your flat, I had to put it in the fridge. It was still good but it got a bit denser and the icing was a bit less creamy.
All of my questions sesdaet-thlnkt!