Gluten Free Blueberry Orange Syrup Cake Food

WHOLE ORANGE CAKE - FLOURLESS

Steps:

• Boil 10 minutes: Place oranges in a pot and cover with cold water. Bring to the boil over medium high heat. Boil for 10 minutes and drain.
• Repeat x 2: Put oranges back in the pot, cover with cold water and boil again for 10 minutes. Drain, then repeat once more (ie. boil oranges 3 x 10 minutes). Shortcut: Boil 40 minutes without draining, keeping an eye on water level. (Note 4)
• Chop: Rinse oranges, then cool slightly so you can handle them. Slice into 1cm / 1/4" slices then dice, removing any seeds. Cool completely.
• Preheat oven: Preheat oven to 160°C/320°F (140°C fan). Grease and line a 23cm/9" cake pan with baking/parchment paper. (Note 5)
• Blitz oranges: Place chopped oranges in a food processor (Note 6). Blitz on high for 4 x 10 second bursts, scraping down the sides in between, until it's pureed into a marmalade consistency with only a few visible bits of rind remaining. It does not need to be completely smooth.
• Blitz in remaining ingredients: Add almond meal, eggs, baking powder and sugar. Blitz for 5 - 10 seconds on high until combined.
• Bake 60 minutes: Pour into prepared cake pans. Bake 60 minutes until the surface is golden and a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean.
• Cool: Cool fully in cake pan. Unless using loose base pan, cover surface with baking paper to help you turn it out (cake is sticky so may stick to your hand and tear surface otherwise.)
• Serve: Decorate as desired - I used slices of fresh oranges, rind strips and sprigs of flowers. A dusting of icing sugar / powdered sugar is also lovely. Cut, then serve! See Note 7 for suggestions.

GLUTEN-FREE BLUEBERRY CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat a 9-inch springform pan with cooking spray.
• Whisk together 1 cup sorghum flour, brown rice flour, potato starch, tapioca starch, baking powder, xanthan gum, baking soda, and kosher salt in a large bowl; make a well in the center.
• Whisk together buttermilk, sugar, canola oil, eggs, egg whites, and lemon zest in a medium bowl. Pour buttermilk mixture into the well of the flour mixture and stir to combine batter; do not overmix.
• Toss blueberries with 1 tablespoon sorghum flour in a medium bowl until evenly coated. Fold all but 1/2 cup blueberries into batter. Spread evenly into the prepared pan. Top with the remaining 1/2 cup blueberries. Sprinkle cane juice on top of the blueberries.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cake is browned on top and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 70 to 75 minutes.
• Let cake cool in the pan for 15 minutes, then unmold (remove the outer ring) and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

FRIED POUND CAKE WITH ORANGE SYRUP

Steps:

• Combine orange juice, sugar and orange zest in a medium saucepan.
• Bring to a boil, stirring continuously, until the sugar is dissolved.
• Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature.
• While the sauce cools, peel oranges with a sharp knife (be sure to remove all of the white part- is it called pith?).
• Segment oranges and place in a bowl.
• Pour the syrup over the oranges and refrigerate until chilled (about 2 hours).
• Whisk eggs and milk together in a shallow dish.
• Dip slices of pound cake in egg mixture, evenly coating both sides.
• Cook pound cake slices, a few pieces at a time, in a lightly greased skillet over medium heat for 2 1/2 minutes on each side or until golden brown.
• Serve with orange syrup and garnish with blueberries.

BLUEBERRY-ORANGE SYRUP

Steps:

• In a small bowl stir together orange juice and cornstarch, set aside. In a small saucepan mix together blueberries, sugar, and orange juice mixture.
• Bring mixture to a boil, then reduce to a simmer and cook for 10 minutes.