This blood orange upside down cake is super easy to make and you’ll be shocked when it pops out of the pan fully decorated and stunning. This cake is the perfect mate for either a big dollop of whipped cream or a nice scoop of ice cream so temper it’s citrusy zing. I candied my oranges in two batches, one for the navel and one for the blood. This way the colors stayed as crisp as possible but this is an optional step it you want to wash less dishes and speed the process up.
A delicious and easy orange upside down cake featuring beautiful candied blood oranges.
- 1 blood orange
- 1 navel orange
- 2 cups water
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 1/2 tsps baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/3 cup salted butter
- 1/3 cup sour cream
- 4 tsps grated orange zest from about 2 large oranges
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup strained fresh orange juice you can add the juice of a lemon if you'd like some more zing
- Cut both blood and navel oranges into slices.
In a medium saucepan, over medium heat add 1 cup of water and ¾ cup sugar. Stir until the sugar has dissolved in pan. Layer in the blood orange slices. Bring down to a simmer and cook for about 10-12 minutes.
- Repeat this process for the navel orange slices.
- Preheat the oven to 350° degrees F. Liberally butter a 9 inch cake pan.
- Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Cream together the butter, sour cream, and orange zest.
- Slowly add the sugar, mixing until the mixture is light and fluffy. Scrape down the sides of the bowl. Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well between additions and scraping down the sides.
- Add the sifted dry ingredients alternately with the orange juice to the creamed mixture, beating well on low speed after each addition.
- Add of layer of alternating orange slices at the bottom of the pan.
- Pour batter about half way up in the pan.
Bake until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean, about 35 min.
- Cool the cake layer in the pans for 10 min. Loosen the layers by running a knife between the cake and the edge of the pan. Invert onto a rack to cool.
How to Make Orange Upside Down Cake
How to Make Orange Upside Down Cake
Full Recipe: https://preppykitchen.com/orange-upside-down-cake/
This blood orange upside down cake is super easy to make and you’ll be shocked when it pops out of…
THIS cake looks wonderful!
P.s. you made a mistake in the recipe: for the orange you wrote water instead of sugar in the last ingredient! Thanks for the recipe! Love your IG page!
Fixed it, thanks so much! 💕
How beautiful! I will have to try this with blood oranges the next time I see them in the market!
Mine turned out wonderful. Thank you!
Susanne,
I’m happy you liked the recipe!
John