About the Cake:
fluffy and exceptionally light white cake
strong & fresh grapefruit flavour
white chocolate pink glaze (white chocolate + grapefruit juice + pink colouring)
Both grapefruit juice & zest used
The Method: A Quick Overview
The batter: firstly the dry ingredients get sifted together and set aside. Then, the sugar and grapefruit zest are mixed together to infuse great, strong grapefruit flavour!
Next, the oil, milk, eggs, vanilla, and grapefruit juice get mixed thoroughly and poured over the sugar bowl. Once smooth the batter is poured into the bundt pan and ready to bake.
Baked at 350 degrees F for about 45-60 mins and it is ready to devour. Th optional mil chocolate can be made on a double boiler (pictured)
Fluffy, light & Citrus-y
The Recipe:
| Prep time | Bake time | Total time |
| 15 mins | ~45 mins | ~1 hour |
Grapefruit Cake
Ingredients:
- 2 cups cake flour or all-purpose flour
- 1¾ teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⅔ cups granulated sugar
- zest of 1 large grapefruit
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup (250 ml) whole milk
- ¾ cup (175 ml) vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Procedure:
Preheat oven to 350 Degrees F and grease a 9 inch bundt cake pan, set aside.
In a large bowl prepare the dry mix by sifting together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
In a medium bowl, place the sugar and add the zest of the entire grapefruit overtop. Using fork or your fingers, infuse the grapefruit zest into the sugar by mixing thoroughly.
In another small bowl or in a glass measuring cup, combine the eggs, milk, grapefruit juice ,oil and vanilla. Whisk together thoroughly and pour overtop of the sugar mix.
Now with teo mixtures: the dry flour mix, and the oil mix, combine the two by folding the wet inot the dry with a rubber spatula, then mix until a smooth batter appears.
Pour into bundt cake pan and bake for ~45-50 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean from the cake!
let cool and enjoy!
Optional White chocolate drizzle
Create a double boiler by placing a small saucepan in the stovetop with about one cup of water inside. Overtop of the boiling water place a bowl as you would a lid. Inside the bowl place about 1/2 cup of white chocolate (chips/chocolate melts/ or bar) and add 1 Tablespoon of heavy cream. Stir until melted and smooth and add grapefruit juice and pink food colouring until the desired colour appears. Pour over the cooled cake before the chocolate hardens; and it is complete!
Happy Baking!
