CITRUS LOAF CAKE RECIPE 🍊

Embrace citrus season with this delicious Blood Orange Olive Oil Cake. It’s bursting with fresh flavor, moist, fluffy and perfectly sweet. The cake is topped with a light, zesty glaze for a delightful snacking experience🍊.

🍊 Blood Oranges are the star of this cake providing fresh citrus flavors, but we can not forget about the olive oil which provides the richest, smoothest texture. Since the center of a cake doesn’t reach much higher than 210°F, the olive oil will not be damaged and its flavor will not be compromised in the baking process. So use high quality oil. It’s SO worth it.

🍊 Serve this Blood Orange Olive Oil Cake as dessert at your winter dinner party, with morning coffee or tea, or at an Easter brunch. It’s also a great snack cake just to have on hand for that sweet tooth craving.

Ingredients for the glaze:

▢ 1 ½ cups powdered sugar

▢ 3 tbsp melted butter

▢ ½ blood orange, juiced and zested

▢ 1-3 tbsp almond milk, or milk of choice

RECIPE INSTRUCTIONS CONT.

⭐️ Bake for 1 hour and 5 minutes. Note: oven times may vary and need to adjust +/- 10-15 minutes. The loaf is finished when a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

⭐️ Allow the bread to cool to room temperature before adding the glaze.

⭐️ To make the glaze, combine powdered sugar, melted butter, and juice/zest of blood orange and optional ½ tsp orange extract. Use an electric hand mixer to combine glaze together. It will be thick. Add 1 tablespoon of milk at a time until glaze is spreadable.

⭐️ Remove the cake from the pan and place on a wire rack. Pour the glaze over top of the loaf. For easy cleaning, I like to place a piece of parchment under the rack because inevitably some of the glaze will drip down.

⭐️ Let the glaze harden, slice and enjoy!

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