After being cooked, the cake may be delicate and can fall if it is wiggled too much. Clementine cake may be dense and moist, and its flavor may improve a day or more after preparation, because the ingredients intermingle and coalesce to enhance its flavor as it ages. Ĭlementine cake can be finished with a sweet topping such as a sugar or chocolate glaze, a fudge or chocolate sauce, powdered sugar or honey. The almonds used can be toasted or blanched.
Candied clementines can be used atop the cake or as a garnish. The fruit can be chopped or blended using a food processor. Whole, sliced clementines including the peel, or peeled clementines can be used, and the clementines can be cooked before being used in the cake batter. The seeds and membrane of the clementine can be removed as part of the preparation process, or seedless clementines can be used. The cake can be prepared with clementines and/or clementine zest mixed in the batter, with them atop the cake, such as in slices, and in both ways. It can also be prepared as an upside-down cake. Some variations exist, such as being prepared without the use of flour. Optional ingredients include orange juice, orange muscat, milk, white dessert wine, or Riesling wine, orange oil or tangerine oil (or both), almond extract and vanilla extract. In popular culture, the cake played a minor part in the plot of the 2013 film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.Ĭlementine cake is prepared with clementines, ground almonds or almond meal, flour, sugar, butter and eggs. It may originate from an orange cake in Sephardic cuisine. It may be topped with a sweet glaze or sauce, powdered sugar, honey and clementines, or candied clementines. Clementine cake is a cake flavored primarily with clementines.
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