Orange and Blueberry birthday cake
 
 
Serves: 1 8 inch cake
Ingredients
  • ½ cup orange juice
  • zest of 2 oranges
  • 1½ cups buttermilk
  • 4 eggs
  • 6 tbsp honey
  • 113 grams butter, melted
  • 113 grams oil
  • ⅔ cup sugar
  • 4 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tbsp grand mariner
  • 2 cups blueberries- fresh, preferably, or frozen (not thawed)
  • 1½ cups whipped cream
  • 3-4 tbsp icing sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 180 C or 350 F.
  2. Grease two 8 inch pans with butter or spray.
  3. In a bowl, mix the orange juice with the buttermilk.
  4. In another bowl, sift the flour with the baking powder, baking soda and salt.
  5. In a bowl, beat the melted butter, oil, sugar,honey, and eggs till a little light and creamy. Add the vanilla extract, grand mariner and orange zest. Beat.
  6. Add the flour and the buttermilk mix to the butter-eggs-sugar mix, alternating the wet and dry ingredients in three steps, starting with most of the flour, then the liquid and then flour, being careful to not over mix.
  7. Stir in the blueberries and gently mix till just mixed through.
  8. Bake cake for 40-45 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean.
  9. Transfer pans to a rack and cool for 10 minutes before carefully removing the cakes from the pan and letting them cool on a wire rack completely before frosting.
  10. Once the cakes have cooled, torte the cakes so that you will have a nice flat surface to decorate.
  11. Whip the cream with the vanilla and icing sugar on high speed until medium to stiff peaks form, about 1 minute.
  12. Place the bottom layer on serving platter.
  13. Brush the top with some simple syrup, if you want. Brushing the cake with simple syrup adds a little more moistness to the cake. Spread a third of the whipped cream in the centre. You can add some fresh oranges or blueberries if you like. Top with the second cake. Brush it with simple syrup too. Add a third of the whipped cream to crumb coat. Decorate as you like with the rest of the cream. Top with fresh fruit.
Recipe by The Novice Housewife at https://novicehousewife.com/2017/11/07/orange-blueberry-layer-cake/