Blood Orange and Olive Oil Upside Down Cake #CakeSliceBakers
New year, new book! This year, the Cake Slice Bakers are baking from The New Way to Cake by Benjamina Ebuehi, a quarter finalist from the Great British Baking Show. For my first bake from this cake, I chose the Blood Orange and Olive Oil Upside Down Cake. I baked this cake twice as I had two issues (one small, one not so small) when I baked it the first time. The small issue, the oranges I had bought were, in fact, not blood red oranges. Not a deal breaker by any means. Second issue was that the recipe calls for baking the cake in a 9 inch removable bottom cake pan. The closest I had to this was a springform pan, so that is what I used. About 10 minutes into the baking time, I had an oven floor covered in burnt sugar and a kitchen full of smoke. The cake was still pretty tasty, though it didn't look quite as appetizing, and the oranges were a lot more bitter. I redid the cake two days later using a regular 9 inch cake pan. I buttered the sides and bottom, and then