Orange and almond - aroma, freshness and peculiar consistency. Here, probably, in a nutshell, I would describe this cupcake. I hope that many, having tried it, will add it to their list of favorite citrus baked goods.
- General \ asset cooking time: 1 hour 50 minutes \ 30 minutes
- Servings Per Container: 12 Servings
- Caloric value (100g): 251 kcal
- Cost: average cost
How to make an almond orange muffin
- Cottage cheese - 100 g
- Milk - 4 tablespoons
- Sugar - 40 g per dough
- Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp
- Flour - 200 g per dough
- Salt - 1 pinch (s)
- Baking dough - 1 tsp
- Orange - 2 pcs.
- Sugar - 30 g per filling
- Almond flour - 100 g
- Flour - 1 tbsp for rolling
- Chicken egg - 1 pc.
- Jam - 2 tbsp orange
- Powdered sugar - 125 g
- Liqueur - 2 tbsp Amaretto
Preparation:
Place the curd in a small bowl. If your cottage cheese has a grainy consistency, then it is better to grind it through a sieve - this way the dough will turn out smoother. To it we measure out the required amount of milk and vegetable oil with a tablespoon. Pour in salt and sugar. We mix everything until smooth.
In a separate bowl, mix the flour and baking powder. Sift about half of the resulting flour mixture into the curd mass and mix it well.
Sift the remaining flour onto the work surface. We put our curd mass there and begin to knead the dough with our hands until the dough "takes" in itself the entire volume of flour. Cover it with a napkin (from airing) and set it aside while the filling is being prepared.
Oranges must be thoroughly washed with hot water (you never know what they are treated with before being sold), and then driedclean towel.
Cut the skin off one orange and cut into thin strips - they will later be used to decorate the cake. I have a special cutter for this purpose - it is very convenient, although uncut stripes remain.
Then from this orange it is necessary to cut the peel in a circle, so that the pulp is exposed, and you can easily cut out slices without membranes.
Cut the resulting orange fillets into small pieces. Throw them on a strainer to collect the juice we need. You can also squeeze the juice from the remaining orange scraps there.
Now let's prepare the filling.
Rub the zest from the second orange on the shallow side of the grater and squeeze out the juice.
Divide the egg into yolk and white.We need almond flour in the recipe. If you do not have it ready-made, then cooking is not a problem at all. For this we takeordinary almonds and pour boiling water. After 10-15 minutes, when they are sufficiently steamed, we easily remove the skin from them. After that, we dry the peeled nuts a little in a hot dry frying pan, stirring constantly so that they do not burn. And then just grind them in a blender with a little sugar. Everything!
So, we mix almond flour with sugar, protein and orange peel. Add Amaretto liqueur there. If it is not available, it does not matter, we will replace it with orange juice.
Now let's start forming the cupcake.
Sprinkle flour on the table. Roll out the dough in a rectangle - so that the short side is the same length as the shape in which you plan to bake the cake.
Lubricate the resulting area first with orange jam, then evenly spread the nut filling on top and randomly lay out the piecesorange pulp.
We roll up the resulting "sandwich" with a roll, and put in a mold.
Mix the yolk with two tablespoons of orange juice and grease the top of the cake.
We put our cake to bake for 50 minutes in an oven preheated to one hundred and eighty degrees. If the top is very reddened, then it makes sense to cover it with a sheet of foil.
When ready, the cake must be completely cooled on the wire rack.
In the meantime, the cake is baking, you can prepare a delicious decoration. We take thinly sliced zest strips (from the first orange - remember), fill them with 50 milliliters of orange juice and boil them on a very small flame until softened. We put it back on a strainer so that the excess liquid is glass. Then put it on a piece of parchment paper and sprinkle with a little sugar (two teaspoons). We leave it like this -