Walnut And Almond Cake With Orange Pomegranate Compote Recipes

WALNUT AND ALMOND CAKE WITH ORANGE-POMEGRANATE COMPOTE

Steps:

• For cake:
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Brush 13x9x2-inch metal baking pan with oil. Combine walnuts, almonds, and cake meal in processor; grind nuts finely.
• Using electric mixer, beat egg yolks, lemon peel, orange peel, cinnamon, and salt in large bowl until beginning to thicken, about 3 minutes. Gradually add 1/2 cup sugar, beating until very thick and light in color, about 2 minutes longer. Beat in orange juice; fold in nut mixture. Using clean dry beaters, beat egg whites in another large bowl until soft peaks form. Gradually add remaining 1/2 cup sugar, beating until stiff but not dry. Fold egg whites into yolk mixture in 3 additions.
• Transfer batter to prepared pan. Bake cake until puffed and deep golden and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 35 minutes. Cool cake in pan on rack (center of cake will fall).
• For syrup and compote:
• Place large sieve over bowl. Cut off all peel and pith from oranges. Working over sieve, cut oranges between membranes to release segments into sieve. Squeeze any juice from orange membranes over. Let oranges drain while preparing syrup.
• Bring pomegranate juice, sugar, lemon juice, and reserved orange peel to boil in medium saucepan over medium-high heat, stirring until sugar dissolves and thin syrup forms. Remove from heat.
• Holding orange peel back with spoon, pour 3/4 cup syrup into small bowl. Spoon over cake; let stand at least 1 hour.
• Add drained orange juice to remaining syrup in pan. Boil syrup with peel until reduced enough to coat spoon, about 8 minutes. Discard peel. DO AHEAD Cake can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and let stand at room temperature. Place orange segments in bowl. Cover and refrigerate orange segments and syrup separately.
• Add syrup to orange segments; let compote stand 15 minutes. Trim edges of cake. Cut cake lengthwise into 2 1/2-inch-wide strips. Cut strips on diagonal into diamonds; place on plates. Spoon compote over and serve.

ORANGE ALMOND POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 10-inch tube pan.
• Whisk flour, baking powder, and baking soda together in a bowl.
• Beat butter and sugar together in a bowl until creamy. Add marzipan. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat half-and-half into butter mixture.
• Stir 1 cup of flour mixture into the butter mixture. Stir in milk. Add another 1 cup flour mixture to the butter mixture and stir milk into mixture. Add remaining flour mixture and stir in orange juice. Scrape down the sides of the bowl with a spatula and give batter a final mix. Pour batter into prepared tube pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, about 90 minutes.
• Cool cake in the pan for 15 to 20 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

ORANGE-WALNUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Brush cake pan with oil, line bottom with parchment; oil and flour parchment and pan. Place walnuts in food processor and pulse until finely ground (be careful not to overprocess); set aside.
• In a large bowl, whisk together orange zest, flour, baking powder, salt, and ground walnuts. Make a well in the center of flour mixture and stir in eggs, brown sugar, orange juice, and oil until just moistened; do not overmix.
• Pour batter into prepared pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes. Let cool in pan 10 minutes; transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.
• In a small bowl, stir together yogurt and confectioners' sugar. Before serving, dust cake with confectioners' sugar. Serve with sweet yogurt garnished with orange zest, if desired.

OLIVE OIL-WALNUT CAKE WITH POMEGRANATE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly oil sides and bottom of a 9-inch springform pan or cake pan. Place a parchment circle in bottom of pan and lightly oil parchment. Dust with flour and shake off excess. Set pan aside.
• Add the walnuts to a food processor and grind to a coarse powder. Place ground walnuts in a bowl, and add 1 cup flour, baking powder and salt. Stir and set aside.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat the egg whites until stiff. With a rubber spatula, transfer the whites to a sheet of parchment or to a separate bowl.
• Put egg yolks in the bowl of stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Add sugar and whisk on low speed until sugar is dissolved. Then increase speed and continue beating, scraping down sides of the bowl as necessary, until the mixture is pale yellow and thick, about 5 minutes.
• Beat in buttermilk, vanilla extract and orange zest, then slowly add the flour mixture at low speed. Slowly add 1/2 cup/120 milliliters olive oil and beat for a minute or so to combine. Using a rubber spatula, quickly fold in the reserved beaten egg whites. (First, fold in 1/3 of the whites to lighten the batter, then fold in remaining whites.) Scrape batter into prepared cake pan, put pan on a baking sheet and place in oven on middle shelf.
• Bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour, until a skewer inserted in the cake comes out clean. Cool in the pan on a rack, then invert onto a cake plate.
• Meanwhile, make the syrup: In a small saucepan, put sugar, orange juice, cinnamon stick and cloves. Simmer over medium heat until slightly thickened, about 10 minutes. Let cool. Spoon half the syrup over top of cooled cake. Cut cake into wedges and serve with a dab of crème fraîche, if desired. Spoon more syrup over each portion. Sprinkle with pomegranate seeds.

ORANGE-ALMOND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 10-inch springform pan and sprinkle with matzo cake meal.
• In medium bowl, mix egg yolks, sugar, grated orange zest and cinnamon, and beat well.
• Place half the almonds in food processor and pulverize. Add remaining almonds and pulse until coarsely chopped. Stir into egg yolk mixture.
• In another bowl, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Fold into batter and pour into pan.
• Bake for about 40 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean when inserted in center.
• Meanwhile, squeeze oranges and mandarins for about 3 cups juice and pour into small saucepan with 3/4 cup sugar. Bring to boil and stir to dissolve sugar. Simmer gently until liquid has reduced by half and is a sticky syrup. Keep warm enough not to set.
• When cake is tepid, remove to large plate with lip and make holes with toothpick or skewer all over it, right through to bottom. Pour syrup onto cake so it absorbs it all. There will be a sticky pink moat around it; let it sit for a few hours, occasionally spooning more syrup over surface.
• Pour cream or nondairy topping into bowl with vanilla seeds and sugar and whisk until sloppily firm. Pour in orange liqueur, and whisk until soft. Serve alongside cake.

ORANGE ALMOND CAKE

Steps:

• Place orange in a saucepan. Cover with water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer until orange is soft, about 30 minutes. Drain.
• Cut orange into chunks and discard seeds.
• Mix almond flour with 2 tablespoons sugar.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8-inch cake pan and coat the pan with a handful of the almond-sugar mixture.
• Combine orange chunks and 1 cup sugar in a food processor; pulse until pureed. Add almond flour mixture and butter; process until smooth. Add eggs; mix until smooth. Add flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt; process until just combined. Pour batter into the prepared cake pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 35 to 45 minutes.

ORANGE WALNUT CAKE

Steps:

• Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 350°F
• Lightly butter and flour the inside of a 12-cup fluted tube pan, tapping out the excess flour.
• Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a bowl and set aside.
• In a large bowl, using a hand-held electric mixer at high speed, beat the butter until creamy, about 1 minute.
• Add the sugar and beat until light in color and texture, about 2 minutes.
• One at a time, beat in the egg yolks, then the orange zest.
• Reduce the mixer speed to low and in three additions, beat in the flour mixture, alternating with the sour cream, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed, until the batter is smooth.
• Stir in the walnuts.
• In a grease-free, medium bowl, using the electric mixer with clean beaters, beat the egg whites just until stiff peaks form.
• Do not overbeat the whites, or they will look lumpy and watery.
• Using a rubber spatula, stir about one-fourth of the whites into the batter to lighten it.
• Pour the remaining whites on top and fold them in until they are incorporated. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top.
• Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes.
• Cool on a wire cake rack for 10 minutes.
• GLAZE.
• To make the glaze, whisk the Grand Marnier, confectioners' sugar and orange juice to dissolve the sugar.
• Brush about half of the glaze over the cake, letting it soak inches Invert the cake onto the cake rack, and place the cake rack over a cookie sheet.
• Brush the remaining glaze over the cake.
• Cool completely.
• (The cake can be prepared up to 1 week ahead, wrapped tightly in plastic wrap, and stored at room temperature.).

WALNUT AND ALMOND CAKE WITH ORANGE SYRUP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Butter and flour 13x9x2-inch metal baking pan. Bring 1 cup sugar, 1 cup water and 1/2 tablespoon orange peel to boil in heavy small saucepan, stirring often; boil 2 minutes. Refrigerate syrup uncovered.
• Finely grind all nuts, graham cracker crumbs, cinnamon, and 1/3 cup sugar in processor. Using electric mixer, beat egg yolks, vanilla, 1/3 cup sugar, and remaining 1 tablespoon orange peel in large bowl until very thick, about 4 minutes. Using clean beaters, beat whites and salt in another large bowl to soft peaks. Gradually add 1 cup sugar; beat until stiff but not dry. Fold whites into yolk mixture, then fold in nut mixture. Transfer batter to prepared pan.
• Bake cake until knife inserted into center comes out clean, about 50 minutes. Spoon cold syrup over hot cake. Cool completely. Cover; let stand up to 1 day. Cut into squares or diamonds.