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Clementine cake
Clementine cupcake, cut open
Type Cake
Course Dessert
Created byPossibly originated from an orange cake developed by the Sephardi Jews
Serving temperatureCold or warmed
Main ingredients Clementine fruit and typical cake ingredients
Similar dishes Fruitcake

Clementine cake is a cake flavored primarily with clementines. It may be topped with a sweet glaze or sauce, powdered sugar, honey and clementines, or candied clementines. It may originate from an orange cake in Sephardic cuisine. In popular culture, the cake played a minor part in the plot of the 2013 film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

The cake is sometimes prepared using whole clementines in their peels, seeds and all, boiled.

Joyce Goldstein called it a classic. The Sydney Morning Herald called it famous.

Ingredients

Clementine cake is prepared with clementines, ground almonds or almond meal, flour, sugar, butter and eggs. [1] [2] Optional ingredients include orange juice, orange muscat, milk, white dessert wine, or Riesling wine, [3] [4] orange oil or tangerine oil (or both), [3] almond extract and vanilla extract. [3] Some variations exist, such as being prepared without the use of flour. [2] [5]

Preparation

The cake can be prepared with clementines and/or clementine zest mixed in the batter, [1] [6] [7] with them atop the cake, such as in slices, and in both ways. [2] The seeds and membrane of the clementine can be removed as part of the preparation process, [2] [4] [8] or seedless clementines can be used. [9] Whole, sliced clementines including the peel, [1] [10] [11] [12] or peeled clementines can be used, [8] and the clementines can be cooked before being used in the cake batter. [13] The fruit can be chopped or blended using a food processor. [13] Candied clementines can be used atop the cake or as a garnish. [3] [2] The almonds used can be toasted or blanched. [3] [9]

Clementine cake can be finished with a sweet topping such as a sugar or chocolate glaze, [2] [14] a fudge or chocolate sauce, [6] [15] powdered sugar or honey. [1] [2] [16] Clementine cake is dense and moist, [8] [11] [12] and its flavor may improve a day or more after preparation, [2] [5] [13] [17] because the ingredients intermingle and coalesce to enhance its flavor as it ages. After being cooked, the cake may be delicate and can fall if it is wiggled too much. [10] After preparation, it can be frozen to preserve it. [18]

Preparation
  • Boiling the whole fruit
    Boiling the whole fruit
  • Fruit after boiling
    Fruit after boiling
  • Pureed whole boiled fruit
    Pureed whole boiled fruit
  • Prepared batter in cupcake wrappers
    Prepared batter in cupcake wrappers
  • Finished clementine cupcake
    Finished clementine cupcake

Variations

It can also be prepared as an upside-down cake. [19] [20] Individual cupcakes are a common variation.

  • A slice of vanilla clementine cake
    A slice of vanilla clementine cake
  • Vanilla clementine cake and cupcakes
    Vanilla clementine cake and cupcakes
  • A slice of clementine cake
    A slice of clementine cake
  • Clementine cake
    Clementine cake

History

Whole, peeled, halved and sectioned clementines
Whole, peeled, halved and sectioned clementines

Clementine cake is probably related to a Sephardic orange cake. [7] Sephardic Jews popularized citrus cultivation in the Mediterranean region [21] in the 15th century and popularized the use of orange in baked goods. In addition to its Iberian flavors, the cake also has North African and Spanish roots. [22]

Claudia Roden, writing for The Guardian, said that she'd traced the evolution of the dish, which she describes as a Sephardic passover dish, "from Andalucia, through Portugal and Livorno in Italy, to Aleppo". [23] The New Yorker said that Roden's recipe had been adapted by so many other cook book writers that Roden had lost count. [24]

Recognition and importance

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Joyce Goldstein called it a "classic Judeo-Spanish cake". [17] In 2020, Jill Dupleix, writing for the Sydney Morning Herald, called it the "the now famous, never-bettered, flourless Sephardic cake". [25] Nigella Lawson called Roden's recipe "magnificent" [26] and created an adaptation. [2] [5]

In popular culture

Clementine cake played a minor part in the plot of the 2013 film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and was included in the opening scene of the film and in a couple of additional scenes. [2] [10]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Clementine Cake". San Francisco Chronicle. January 8, 2015. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Linn, Virginia (February 26, 2014). "The secret cake in 'Walter Mitty'". The Daily Herald. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d e Goldman, M. (2014). The Baker's Four Seasons: Baking by the Season, Harvest, and Occasion. Montreal, Canada: River Heart Press. pp. 270–272. ISBN  978-0-9865724-1-8.
  4. ^ a b Watson, Molly (January 13, 2015). "Recipe: Clementine Cake". Houston Chronicle. Archived from the original on December 9, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  5. ^ a b c Lawson, Nigella. "Clementine cake". Nigella Lawson. Archived from the original on December 2, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  6. ^ a b Killian, D. (2011). Death in a Difficult Position. A Mantra for Murder Mystery. Penguin Publishing Group. p. 206. ISBN  978-1-101-55111-0.
  7. ^ a b Willoughby, John (March 28, 2014). "Clementine Cake Recipe". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  8. ^ a b c Cook, Crystal & Pollock, Sandy (2011). The Casserole Queens Cookbook: Put Some Lovin' in Your Oven With 100 Easy One-Dish Recipes. New York: Clarkson Potter. pp.  176–177. ISBN  978-0-307-71785-6.
  9. ^ a b "Clementine Cake With Cheesecake Cream: Lifestyles". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Associated Press. January 1, 1970. Archived from the original on March 9, 2012. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  10. ^ a b c Lindahl, Nancy (January 8, 2014). "Sweet Basil the Bee: Sweet, little Clementines go into an intriguing, flour-less cake". Chico Enterprise-Record. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  11. ^ a b Perelman, Deb (13 January 2009). "Clementine Cake". Smitten Kitchen.
  12. ^ a b Hodgson, Moira (11 October 2023). "Claudia Roden's Orange and Almond Cake Recipe". NYT Cooking. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
  13. ^ a b c O'Sullivan, Lucinda (December 4, 2015). "What to eat when wheat is off the daily menu". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  14. ^ Willoughby, John (April 15, 2014). "John Willoughby's Chocolate Glaze Recipe". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  15. ^ Page, Candace (February 12, 2015). "Taste test: What's the secret to great fudge sauce?". Burlington Free Press. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  16. ^ Browne, Miranda G. (2014). Bake Me a Cake as Fast as You Can: Over 100 super easy, fast and delicious recipes. London: Ebury Publishing. p. 169. ISBN  978-1-4464-8917-8.
  17. ^ a b Gold, Amanda (18 January 2018). "Sephardic Orange & Almond Cake for Passover". San Francisco Chronicle.
  18. ^ Breyer, Melissa (January 5, 2015). "23 surprising foods you can freeze and how to do it". Mother Nature Network. Archived from the original on December 7, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  19. ^ "Adorable Clementine Upside Down Cakes". The Huffington Post. March 18, 2013. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  20. ^ McDonnell, Justin (February 18, 2015). "Kung Hei Fat Choy! Alternative ways to celebrate Chinese New Year". Time Out. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  21. ^ Marks, Gil (2010). Encyclopedia of Jewish Food. Wiley. ISBN  978-0-544-18631-6.
  22. ^ Colquhoun, Anna. "Sephardi Orange and Almond Cake". Culinary Anthropologist. Archived from the original on 2 October 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  23. ^ Roden, Claudia (2022-09-26). "Claudia Roden's recipe for orange and almond cake". The Guardian. ISSN  0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
  24. ^ Kramer, Jane (2007-08-27). "Claudia Roden's Spice Routes". The New Yorker. ISSN  0028-792X. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
  25. ^ Dupleix, Jill (2020-03-17). "Orange and almond cake". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
  26. ^ "Clementine Cake". Nigella.com. Retrieved 2024-04-22.

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