How to Make Perfect Blood orange cake - with a vegan option

Blood orange cake - with a vegan option. This kale and blood orange cake is fluffy and green, naturally! The flavour of the kale fades away beneath the zesty orange in the sponge, leaving behind some green goodness, and it's topped with a pale pink citrus buttercream. I've also given all of the options to make also make it a vegan kale blood orange cake, which I've tested and we loved.

Spread the blood orange frosting over the cooled cake. Decorate with blood orange slices, if desired. Finally, begin to gradually add the powdered sugar until no clumps remain and the frosting is smooth. You can cook Blood orange cake - with a vegan option using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Blood orange cake - with a vegan option

1. Prepare 2 of blood or regular oranges, whole.
2. Prepare 3 of eggs - or the vegan alternative: 1 flaxseed ‘egg’ (1tbsp ground flaxseed and 2 1/2 tbsp water mixed and settled for at least 10mins) + 2 tbsp apple sauce.
3. It's 1/3 cup of runny honey - replace with maple syrup if vegan.
4. It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
5. It's 2 cups of ground almonds.
6. It's 1 tsp of baking powder.
7. You need of For a quick syrup.
8. Prepare of Juice and zest of 1 orange.
9. It's 1-2 tsp of runny honey - replace with maple syrup if vegan.
10. You need Splash of or two of water.

Top your cooled cake with the blood orange frosting and use a spatula to smooth. A vegan blood orange chocolate cake for cold days. If you're a fan of the orange and chocolate combo, then you'll love blood orange and chocolate! This moist, chocolatey cake comes with bitter-sweet blood orange frosting, giving it a unique look and taste.

Blood orange cake - with a vegan option instructions

1. In a pan of water, boil the two oranges whole for 1 hour. Cool..
2. Preheat oven to 160C..
3. Once the oranges are cool, blitz in a food processor/ blender til smooth-ish. I like some texture..
4. Mix the oranges, honey, eggs and vanilla..
5. Add the ground almonds and baking powder. Mix well..
6. Put the mix into a lined 20cm baking tin. Bake for 40-45 mins. Let the cake cool in the tin for at least 15 mins..
7. The cake is beautiful on its own 😍 But if you want to make a syrup, gently simmer the syrup ingredients in a pan until they reduce a bit. Then either serve on the side. Or make lots of holes in the cake when it’s baked but while still in the tin, and pour the syrup in. Enjoy 😋.

The Moro blood orange has skin flecked with crimson - a warning of its robustly coloured, berry-flavoured interior. Even within blood orange varieties, flesh ranges from a blushing ruby to an abyss of black and purple. A cake made with a couple of blood oranges promises a constellation of deep reds and flushed pinks. Spread the top with about a quarter of the frosting. When your lovely Vegan Lemon & Blood Orange Upside down cake is finally cooked, leave it in the tin to cool, then unclip the edges, before turning it out on the plate you want to serve it on!.

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