Orange Cake with Blackberries

Just got internet back, so we have a backlog of recipes going back to late January.

Note: This recipe doesn't make MUCH batter - about 2 servings worth. If you're making a big springform pan's worth, you'll need to multiply the recipe by about a factor of 3.

Ingredients

• Cakes:
  
  • 1/2c white flour
    
  • 1/2tsp baking soda
    
  • 1tsp baking powder
    
  • 2tsp sugar
    
  • 1/4tsp salt
    
  • 3tbsp butter, melted & cooled
    
  • 1tbsp milk
    
  • 1/2tsp vanilla
    
  • 1 egg
    
  • zest of 1 orange
    
  • ~10 to 15 blackberries
    
• Glaze:
  
  • ~1tbsp honey
    
  • juice of 1/2 an orange
    
  • ~2tbsp water with 1/2tsp corn starch
    
  • pinch of cinnamon
    

Preheat the oven to 350. Mix the flour, soda, and baking powder and set aside. In another (large) bowl, whip the egg with the sugar. Add the remaining wet ingredients and whisk well. Then add the dry to the wet. Take the blackberries and toss them with some spare flour. In two WELL GREASED small bundt pans, pour a little batter - just enough to coat the bottom. Add the blackberries in one layer (it doesn't take many) and then pour remaining batter to cover. Bake for 12 minutes, or until the top is just beginning to brown a little.

While that's baking, juice 1/2 the orange you zested for the cakes. In a saucepan, combine the orange juice and honey and a pinch of cinnamon. Cook until the mixture has a chance to simmer a little. If it doesn't look like enough juice, use the other 1/2 orange. Anyway, once it's cooked down a little, take it off the heat, add the corn starch and water mixture, stir, and then put it back on high heat until the glaze thickens.

When the cakes come out of the oven, let them cool for 5 minutes and then turn them out and glaze. Bonus if you dust them with powdered sugar. Serve!

Thoughts These were really good. The cake was a LITTLE dry, but you couldn't REALLY tell because of the blackberries and the glaze. I would definitely make this again. In the future I would consider using other berries. Blueberries or raspberries might be good. Claire says bake for less long in the future (we went a little longer than 12 minutes). Otherwise, perfect.

Disaster Index: 1/10