Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Odile's Fresh Orange Cake

The picture in Dorie Greenspan's book, Baking Chez Moi, is absolutely beautiful and I was delighted to bake this lovely fresh orange cake.

It was an easy cake to prepare and I enjoyed cutting up the oranges for the topping.  Dorie says you need 3 oranges--I used 2 1/2.  She's right:  you need three oranges.  While my cake looked pretty fantastic, covering the whole top would have been even more so!  I guess I'll just have to bake this one again!

Getting ready

Straining the oranges for the topping

Oranges on

A sprinkle of powdered sugar

9 comments:

  1. Your cake looks delicious! The oranges on top really dresses the simple cake up!

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  2. How pretty your cake turned out especially with the bit of powdered sugar on top. This was a lovely cake, very moist and delicious.

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  3. Yours lookso great... your orange topping is fantastic!

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  4. Making the topping was where I stopped. Your looks fantastic and without using more oranges than is needed.

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  5. Your cake looks fabulous. I skipped the topping but loved it all the same.

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  6. Lovely cake and lovely results ! Yes, the amount of oranges for coverage seems to be an issue as I read all of the posts. But even coming up short everyone's cakes look so gorgeous with all of the different designs. That powdered sugar really made the colors pop- great addition !

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  7. I am looking forward to making this cake, it looks so light and beautiful!

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  8. Such pretty, pretty orange slices! And I had the same issue with not enough oranges. Also, love the powdered sugar topping! I think it's so great how every makes their own twist on this recipe!

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  9. I think your arrangement looks lovely, especially with a sprinkling of powdered sugar!

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