Blood Orange Baby Pound Cakes

Blood Orange Pound Cake Baby Cakes RecipeWho can resist the intensely colored ruby red juice of a blood orange.  I remain amazed at the depth and array of color that nature provides us.  The juice from a blood orange not only prods me toward the kitchen to bake up a sweet and citrusy recipe, but it also rouses the artist in me and the urge to paint.  What a vibrant water color the juice of a blood orange would make.
Blood Orange Pound Cake RecipeBlood Orange Pound Cake Baby Cakes RecipeColor alone is not the only reason I am so fond of this fruit.  Just one taste of its nectar has me searching my taste buds to identify its origin.  A touch of raspberry and strawberry come to mind.  It is as though nature has mixed up its own party punch, combining berries and citrus in the juice of this fruit.
Blood Orange Pound Cake Baby Cakes RecipeA sweet and colorful fruit deserves a sweet and colorful presentation.  These babycakes are delicately tangy with surprising hints of berry flavor in the glaze.  The ingredients of a pound cake combined with the deeply colored juice of the blood orange transform into the softest of peachy pink in these diminutive cakes.
Blood Orange Pound Cake Baby Cakes RecipeBlood Orange Pound Cake Baby Cakes Recipe

 

Source:  Adapted from Real Food, Fall 2011

 

 

 

 




11 thoughts on “Blood Orange Baby Pound Cakes

    • Thank you Cathleen. Honestly, I hadn’t tried them either until fairly recently. I just love the berry-ish flavor they have. If you can get your hands on some I think you would really enjoy them.

    • I used some of both. Blood oranges are probably easier to find than the juice but I was able to find both at my local Whole Foods Market.

  1. Start first with the eyes to eat, right? These are Pretty in Pink and for those of us who are not moved to tears over chocolate, this is a happy treat. It’s a baby pound cake of our very own…which is delightful unto itself to have a personal dessert…but pound cake is one of those comfort foods that has you at its name alone. And then, drizzling blood orange syrup atop these little happy cakes makes it intensely delicious. Having eaten at least 4 of these myself I am a big fan! Thank you!!

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