What Are You Baking? April 2024

My cousin SIL is in town for work, so I wanted to send something back with her for my nephews, and remembered that they had requested the orange olive oil cake at Thanksgiving.

Luckily I had oranges and also zested sugar from an orange I ate last week :joy: (i can’t “waste” zest anymore – I always zest an orange into sugar before eating it now :rofl:)

Made a full recipe, 2/3 for the boys (I can’t fit more than that into a takeout container for her to carry) and 1/3 for the kids of my friend who’s hosting a wine event tomorrow.

Of course, I had to level the doming to fit the cakes into takeout containers for travel… so I have a small container of trimmings for myself :grimacing:

Interesting thing today was that the cakes domed a lot even though I baked them at 300F. I might pull out my cake strips next time, or pour some water into the tray to slow it down a bit. I had a thermometer in there the whole time, so I know it wasn’t an oven issue.

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