Usuba
Festive Mandarin Cake
Aromatic cupcake with caramelized mandarins, spices and raisins soaked in red wine. Only seedless mandarins with sturdy segments will work.
- Prep
- 30 min
- Cooking
- 75 min
- Total
- 105 min
- Standard serving
- 116.7 g
Ingredients
Total 15- Mandarins
30 g≈ 1/2 pcs - Vegetable oil
1.67 ml≈ 1/3 tsp - Light brown sugar
4.17 g≈ 1 tsp - Golden raisins
12.5 g≈ 3.5 tsp - Red sweet wineкрасный
8.33 ml - Butter
20.143 ml≈ 3.5 slice - Brown sugar
8.33 g≈ 2 tsp - Chicken egg
16.5 g≈ 1/3 pcs - Cinnamonмолотый
0.26 g - Nutmeg
0.238 g - Cloveмолотый
0.225 g≈ 1/2 pcs - Whole wheat flour
23.33 g≈ 3 tbsp - Baking powder
0.33 g - Vanilla vodka
1.67 ml - Salt
to taste
Instructions
- 1
Step 1
Peel the mandarins and separate them into segments. Fry them in a small amount of vegetable oil and light brown sugar in a pan. Place on paper towels to cool.
- 2
Step 2
Beat soft butter and brown sugar into a fluffy mixture. Add large room temperature eggs one by one, continuing to beat.
- 3
Step 3
Sift the flour with baking powder, ground cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Carefully fold the dry mixture into the butter mixture.
Soak the light raisins in red wine for 15–20 minutes, then dry them. Add the raisins to the dough. At the end of mixing, pour in vanilla vodka and a pinch of salt.
- 4
Step 4
Spread half of the dough into the prepared 18–21 cm diameter pan. Gently press 2/3 of the cooled mandarins into the dough. Fill the pan with the remaining dough and smooth the surface.
Bake in a preheated 180°C oven for 30–35 minutes until golden brown.
- 5
Step 5
Remove the cooled cupcake from the mold. Decorate with remaining mandarins, powdered sugar, thin citrus zest, or rosemary sprigs.
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