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Claire Saffitz Blood Orange Pudding Cake Recipe | Dessert Person

Claire Saffitz Blood Orange Pudding Cake Recipe | Dessert Person
I’ve been captivated by the idea of a pudding cake ever since I saw a recipe for one by the pastry chef Kristen Murray of Maurice luncheonette in Portland, Oregon, many years ago. Prepared more like a soufflé than a cake, it’s a mixture of citrus juice, dairy, egg yolks, and flour, lightened with beaten egg whites and baked in a water bath.
As it bakes, the egg whites rise to the surface and the batter miraculously separates into a light sponge on top and a curdlike layer on the bottom. The typical all-lemon version is lovely, but here I use blood oranges for their vibrant color and sweet-tart flavor. You can leave the cake in the baking dish for serving, but I prefer to turn it out so the pudding layer is on top. Serve it with fresh blood orange slices for a bright and light winter dessert.

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Blood Orange Pudding Cake Ingredients:
Butter for the baking dish
2⁄3 cup fresh blood orange juice (5.3 oz / 150g), from 4 medium or 3 large blood oranges
1⁄2 cup plain whole-milk Greek yogurt (4.2 oz / 120g), at room temperature
1⁄3 cup fresh lemon juice (2.7 oz / 77g)
1 teaspoon finely grated blood orange zest
2⁄3 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar (5.6 oz / 158g)
5 large eggs (8.8 oz / 250g), whites and yolks separated, at room temperature
4 tablespoons unsalted butter (2 oz / 57g), melted and cooled
1⁄2 cup all-purpose flour (2.4 oz / 68g)
1⁄2 teaspoon Diamond Crystal kosher salt or 1⁄4 teaspoon Morton kosher salt
4 medium blood oranges, for serving

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16 Replies to “Claire Saffitz Blood Orange Pudding Cake Recipe | Dessert Person”

  1. What recipe from What's For Dessert would you like to see in video form?

  2. Hopefully this recipe will redeem my attempt at the blood orange upside down cake! I followed all the directions and I’m an experienced baker but it turned out way to bitter to eat. I shouldn’t have made my first attempt as my husband’s birthday cake too I guess ????????‍♀️

  3. This reminds me a bit of a magic chocolate flan cake, in how it creates a custard on the bottom during baking.

  6. i love these kind of videos, but sometimes i miss how heartwarming it was to see claire struggle to get a difficult yet nicely done result, a challenge would be nice! still love your videos tho

  7. Anyone know if this is kosher for Passover? The eggs are the only leavener right?

  9. I don't know…I guess it would have been more impressive if the blood oranges had been more deeply colored to give that discernible difference in color from sponge to pudding. What was perhaps more interesting was what the guys were working on outside. They could be seen through the lower part of the window. Building a stone wall, or maybe taking one apart? Appreciated the appearance of the antelope, always fun. Need more of that, and the googly eyes and faces on ingredients and implements. ????

  12. Can i only put parchment on the very bottom and not run it up the sides? I feel like that would mitigate wrinkles

  16. I've never heard of a cake batter that makes its own frosting in the oven, that's so cool

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