Looking for a quick cake to prepare that’s visually impressive and delicious? The moelleux with oranges is a soft and spectacular dessert that captivates at first sight and first bite, and it’s just what you need!
Its moist and soft texture combines with the intense aroma of oranges, providing a perfect balance between sweetness and freshness.
Easy to make and beautiful to present, it’s ideal to prepare in the winter season when citrus fruits are at their peak of flavor and aroma.
Decorated with orange slices and mint leaves, it becomes an elegant and refined dessert, perfect for concluding a special lunch or impressing guests with simplicity and taste.
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- Difficulty: Very Easy
- Cost: Affordable
- Rest time: 15 Minutes
- Preparation time: 25 Minutes
- Portions: 8 People
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Winter
Ingredients
- 5 oranges (untreated)
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 packet baking powder
- 3 eggs
- 14 tbsps butter (softened)
- 5/8 cup granulated sugar (for the batter)
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar (for the syrup)
Tools
Round pan 8 inches
- Pans
- Saucepans
Steps
Grease and flour an 8-inch round pan.
Wash the oranges, then peel the zest of one fruit and juice three of them.
Cut the other orange into thin slices, keeping the peel, and set aside.In a large bowl, pour:
1/2 cup fresh orange juice
the grated zest
the melted and cooled butter
5/8 cup sugar
sifted all-purpose flour
instant baking powder
and mix everything well with a marisa spatula.Then add the eggs one at a time, mixing carefully after each addition, until you get a smooth and homogeneous dough.
Then pour the obtained batter into a previously greased and floured pan or sprayed with the appropriate oil.Then bake the moelleux orange cake for about 40 minutes at 356°F static or according to the characteristics of your home oven and always do the toothpick test to check for perfect cooking.
While the citrus cake is baking, prepare the syrup and the candied oranges.In a saucepan, put the sugar with 1/2 cup of water and the remaining orange juice.
Let it simmer for a few minutes and add the orange slices, letting them cook briefly while keeping them whole.Once out of the oven, let the cake cool for a few minutes, then immediately brush the surface with the hot syrup.
Then decorate with the orange slices, overlapping them, and let cool completely before serving.A fragrance you won’t believe….
Enjoy your meal!
Annalisa
Important Note
The butter is intentionally abundant: it may seem a lot, almost excessive, but it is precisely this that makes the cake soft, moist, and melt-in-the-mouth, in the style of classic French moelleux. Reducing the amount would result in a different cake, drier and less enveloping.
