Blood Orange Olive Oil Cake with Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

Serves 6
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Directions

  1. 1Make brown butter by cooking butter in a saucepan until it turns brown.
  2. 2Strain the brown butter.
  3. 3Zest one blood orange and mix it with sugar.
  4. 4Add zest and sugar mix to a mixer bowl.
  5. 5Add eggs and mix using the mixer.
  6. 6Add brown butter, ricotta cheese, olive oil and blood orange juice to the mix.
  7. 7Mix all ingredients with the mixer.
  8. 8Pour mix into a cake pan and bake.
  9. 9Make frosting by mixing cream cheese, brown butter and powdered sugar using a mixer.
  10. 10Add vanilla bean to the frosting and mix.
  11. 11Frost the cake.
  12. 12Decorate the cake with dried blood orange slices.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 whole blood orange zest
  • 3 eggs
  • 3 quarters of cup olive oil
  • 1 cup ricotta
  • 1 cup blood orange juice
  • 8 oz cream cheese
  • 1 cup brown butter
  • 3 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla bean
  • 6 slices dried blood oranges

Equipment

whisksaucepanstrainergratermixer8 inch cake panspatula