Blood Orange Tea Cake

Writer Notes

Just a few years ago I made a roasted polenta pear cake. It modified into the truth is tasty however I forgot about it and never made it again. Whereas reading this month’s Bon Appetit, I saw a recipe for an upside blood orange polenta cake which reminded me that long forgotten pear cake. And naturally, once I saw the Food52 theme, I straight away started to play with the foundation of incorporating these flavors into a polenta cake. My husband straight away modified into up his nose after I mentioned cake and feta in the identical breath however I solidered on. The predominant strive at an upside down carmelized blood orange cake wasn’t fairly a success. The pith of the orange modified into too bitter and thick as evidenced by my husband’s plate – the total cake modified into long past however the total orange slices had been picked off the tip and placed to the aspect. I obvious to examine out again, tweaking the cake ingredients and adding a glaze. Success – the total plates had been scraped edifying! It is a really best cake for breakfast or for an afternoon or bedtime snack with a cup of tea. —melissav

Test Kitchen Notes

On the initiating, the Blood Orange Tea Cake modified into fully delicious. It modified into the truth is moist, graceful from the cornmeal and collected light sufficient to be significantly like a sponge cake. The feta in the cake added richness with out overwhelming it with cheese flavor or texture. We couldn’t detect true bits of feta in the cake. The glaze, which uses new blood orange and mint, mixed with molecules of feta, gave it a tremendous freshness and sever by the sugar. The cake isn’t overly candy, no topic copious amounts of sugar in the recipe. Most regularly after I bake, I sever the sugar in half of, however I followed the recipe and it modified into ravishing. The recipe made extra glaze than I could well also use — I had very juicy oranges. In the origin, I modified into a small puzzled by the flipping directions, however I figured it out. I’m no longer a baker by nature, however this modified into out huge. – aargersi —The Editors

Components

• Cake
• 
  ¹/₂ cup
  
  ravishing cornmeal
  
• 
  ¹/₂ cup
  
  cake flour
  
• 
  1 teaspoon
  
  baking soda
  
• 
  1 tablespoon
  
  mint finely minced
  
• 
  1
  

  pinch salt
  

• 
  ¹/₂ cup
  
  sour cream
  
• 
  ¹/₂ cup
  
  french sheep’s milk feta, grated finely (I former my microplane)
  
• 
  1
  

  stick of butter, softened
  

• 
  1
  

  blood orange, zest and juice
  

• 
  1.25 cups
  
  powdered sugar
  
• 
  4
  

  egg yolks
  

• 
  2
  

  eggs
  

• Blood Orange Feta Glaze
• 
  2
  

  blood oranges
  

• 
  2 tablespoons
  
  french sheep’s milk feta, finely grated (ideally with a microplane)
  
• 
  1 tablespoon
  
  mint, finely minced
  
• 
  1 cup
  
  powdered sugar