For Those Who Do Cake....

[La Quinta]

This is a killer cake...recipe is from a loser on the Ultimate Recipe Showdown...(I was outraged that she lost!!!)  :) I don't often eat sweets but this is really good...

Grapefruit Cake (it's a bundt)

Baking Spray
2.5 cups of All Purpose Flour
2 cups of granulated sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1.5 tsp baking powder
.5 tsp salt
3 eggs
1 cup of canola oil
One half a cup of freshly squeezed ruby red grapefruit juice
One half a cup of freshly squeezed Florida orange juice (sorry but I had to get my Florida plug in!!!)
1 very ripe bannana...mashed
12 oz sour cream
2 TBLS Orange zest
2 TBLS Grapefruit zest


Sift the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt together. Put in a mixer, add the three eggs, MIX. Next add the oil...MIX. Add the OJ, grapefruit juice and bannana...MIX. Lastly add the sour cream and zests. Mix.

Spray a nonstick bundt pan with baking spray...pour in the batter and bake at 350 for 45 min.

Now...here is how my husband "kicked it up a notch"...When the cake cooled he poked it with an ice pick and drizzled Orange liquore all over it (he is a crazy kook!!!) ...and then we waited until it was fully soaked in. Bout 2 hours...

BUT WAIT.... THERE'S MORE...A SAUCE...

1/4 cup grapefruit juice
2 cups Confectioners sugar
1 TBL of both Orange and Gapefruit zest
1/4 cup of chopped pecans

Mix the juice and sugar until combined...(add more juice if necessary...it's a glaze really) stir in the zest and pecans and drizzle over this bad boy!!!

It's a very moist cake....very delicious...guests went home with big slabs...(he had to make another one the next day!!!...He is the baker man in our home!!!)

Enjoy!!!

LQ and B

[Habanero Smoker]

This does look good. Yesterday I bought some Ugli fruit, and I love Ugli fruit; but it's only available for a short period of time. Your recipe has me thinking, is it possible to replace the grapefruit and orange juice with the Ugli juice.

Of course I am also going to make this following you recipe exactly. Looks like a nice dessert for Easter Sunday.

[deb415611]

LQ,

That looks good.    I think that will be the next cake I bake. 

I'm not sure the orange liquor makes Bob a crazy kook though ;D  Sounds like a nice addition.

Deb

[La Quinta]

I should mention the second day we made it...I added poppy seeds and a little grated zuchinni...It's really nice for breakfast or dessert with ice cream...
Anyhoo...give it a whirl....(if ya like bundt cakes)!  :)

[deb415611]

Nothing like cake for breakfast ;D

[La Quinta]

YA THINK!!!!! Nice cup of coffee (tea for me...) and a piece of bundt cake...oh yeah...SWEEEEETTT!!!!  :D

[NePaSmoKer]

Like Homer Simpson

BUNDT CAKE MMMMMMMM

I like it LQ


nepas

[seemore]

That cake sounds light and refreshing.
I am going to have to make it.  If we like it, it will be the dessert for our Easter dinner.
Mrs. S

[La Quinta]

Ooops...I just caught an error in the recipe post...

should be 1.5 tsp of baking soda (not powder)

Sorry...

[La Quinta]

Try it Mrs. S....it's pretty good!!!

Thanks for giving it a try...  :)

[deb415611]

LQ,

Help!  See red below.  1tsp soda & 1 1/2 powder maybe?

This is a killer cake...recipe is from a loser on the Ultimate Recipe Showdown...(I was outraged that she lost!!!)  :) I don't often eat sweets but this is really good...

Grapefruit Cake (it's a bundt)

Baking Spray
2.5 cups of All Purpose Flour
2 cups of granulated sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1.5 tsp baking powder
.5 tsp salt
3 eggs
1 cup of canola oil
One half a cup of freshly squeezed ruby red grapefruit juice
One half a cup of freshly squeezed Florida orange juice (sorry but I had to get my Florida plug in!!!)
1 very ripe bannana...mashed
12 oz sour cream
2 TBLS Orange zest
2 TBLS Grapefruit zest


Sift the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt together. Put in a mixer, add the three eggs, MIX. Next add the oil...MIX. Add the OJ, grapefruit juice and bannana...MIX. Lastly add the sour cream and zests. Mix.

Spray a nonstick bundt pan with baking spray...pour in the batter and bake at 350 for 45 min.

Now...here is how my husband "kicked it up a notch"...When the cake cooled he poked it with an ice pick and drizzled Orange liquore all over it (he is a crazy kook!!!) ...and then we waited until it was fully soaked in. Bout 2 hours...

BUT WAIT.... THERE'S MORE...A SAUCE...

1/4 cup grapefruit juice
2 cups Confectioners sugar
1 TBL of both Orange and Gapefruit zest
1/4 cup of chopped pecans

Mix the juice and sugar until combined...(add more juice if necessary...it's a glaze really) stir in the zest and pecans and drizzle over this bad boy!!!

It's a very moist cake....very delicious...guests went home with big slabs...(he had to make another one the next day!!!...He is the baker man in our home!!!)

Enjoy!!!

LQ and B

[deb415611]

Oh, I see the answer above. 

Stupid Deb,  asked the question after assuming the answer.  My cake has 1 1/2 tsp powder & 1 tsp soda :-[    It won't be the same anyways as I'm modifying it a bit - 1/2 white whole wheat, eggbeaters, light sour cream ,  subbing applesauce for 1/2 the canola and I only had 1 1/4 cups of sugar so used confectioners sugar (as I'm writing I realize I have vanilla sugar I could have used >:()  So I"ll be lucky if it works anyways. 

[La Quinta]

Go with it Deb...no worries...may get a little poofy on ya!!! It get's pretty poofy anyway!!! Really...if I were you I'd blow off the glaze...it doesn't really need it...saves a lot of calories not doing it...but that's me...hubby loves the glaze...me...frozen yogurt a wee bit melted...yum...

[deb415611]

I was going to skip the glaze.  I'm not a glaze or frosting person anyways.   The cake batter tastes good!  I was thinking about the orange liquor but that kind of defeats the whole lightening it up :) 

[La Quinta]

Nah...just do a quick spinkle girl...you deserve it!!!  :)