The thing with having a backlog of baking posts, or at least baking projects that could be made into posts, is that if I don’t write about them or didn’t take notes during the baking process…I don’t really remember much about what I did when I actually write a post about it. Like…this orange pound cake.
I remember I wanted to make orange pound cake (or really just orange cake in general) because my dad left me with a bunch of oranges that I didn’t feel like eating. I make lemon cakes a lot and I figured orange would work just as well. So I tried it out.
I know I didn’t just replace lemons with oranges in my normal lemon pound cake recipe. I think I combined a bunch of recipes into something I thought would work. But unfortunately, I don’t seem to have links to the recipes I used, nor did I write down the recipe I ended up using.
Actually, I think I did. But it probably would have been on a piece of scratch paper or the back of an envelope or something. Which I probably threw away because I rarely label those recipes. I probably came back to it later on and didn’t know what I was writing the recipe for and just tossed it.
Anyway, I remember the orange pound cake came out fine. A bit sweeter than I would have liked and not quite as much orange flavor as I would have liked. I used the rind of two oranges but I think it was getting lost in the sweetness of the oranges and the cake itself. I do have citrus oils so I might try and augment the rind the next time I want to get rid of oranges via cake. And maybe I’ll have a recipe to share next time.
Random moosages as I see fit. 