Lately I’ve been experimenting with cakes. I had a plan to create the ultimate kiwi cake but I have to report that I wasn’t very successful in my endeavour.
I baked a kiwi cake which was actually edible but it simply wasn’t as nice as I was expecting or even hoping it would be, so I decided to move on to different fruits.
Next in line was a grapefruit and this is what I came up with… Double Drizzle Grapefruit Cake…
Ingredients:
For the cake:
- 3 eggs
- 150g self-raising flour
- 150g caster sugar
- 150g unsalted butter
- 1tsp baking powder
- 3tbsp grapefruit juice
- Zest of one grapefruit
For the grapefruit drizzle syrup:
- 50g caster sugar
- 10tbsp grapefruit juice
For the grapefruit drizzle icing
- 200g icing sugar
- 5tbsp grapefruit juice
- Zest of one grapefruit
My ingredients are split into tablespoons of fresh grapefruit juice. I juiced two large grapefruits and they gave me 20 table spoons of bits free juice, so this is what I had to play with. As it ended up it was more than enough to create a lovely grapefruit cake, which will (despite the huge amount of sugar involved) leave a slight tingly feeling at the end of your tongue after you finish a slice. The taste is gentle, you won’t be sat there with a screwed up face when you bite into it. If you did want a stronger taste you could always juice a 3rd grapefruit and then reduce on the stove and allow to cool before using this will intensify the grapefruit taste.
Method:
Preheat the oven to 180C fan.
Grease (and line) one 8” loaf tin.
In a large bowl sift and mix together all the dry cake ingredients being: flour, sugar and baking powder.
Add the zest from one earlier washed grapefruit.
Melt your butter a little, so it is nice and soft (20sec in pulses in a microwave should do the trick).
Add the butter, eggs and 3tbsp of juice to your mixing bowl and beat all the ingredients until smooth.
Pour into your earlier prepared loaf tin.
Bake in the pre-heated oven for 35-40min or until golden brown.
Remove from the oven and allow it to cool for a few minutes.
With a toothpick or a wooden skewer poke the cake a little creating some small inconspicuous holes.
Mix the grapefruit juice with caster sugar and spread your drizzle syrup slowly all over your still warm cake.
Leave to cool almost completely.
After 15-20 minutes remove your cake from the baking tin and get ready for the icing.
In a large bowl mix the icing sugar, grapefruit zest and freshly squeezed juice. Incorporate the juice into the sugar one spoon at the time creating a smooth consistency that’s about the same as cold treacle.
Once your icing drizzle is ready pour it slowly all over your cake and allow it to drip everywhere and then set aside to firm up.
This amount of icing drizzle should let you cover all the cake. Alternatively you can make a half size portion and drizzle just over the top.
The cake is very moist and utterly delicious and the epitome of more-ish
Have you ever tried a grapefruit cake before?
More importantly do you know of any recipes out there for a Kiwi cake that works? And I don’t just mean a cake with some kiwi’s nicely placed on top, I want it to be a key ingredient in the making of the cake… I challenge you!
I love grapefruit .. I so am going to try this recipe on my cheat day …
The cake looks amazing but grapefruit is not easily available here. Could you suggest some other substitute? GIG love 🙂
That looks really divine - I love love love grapefruit so I’m going to have to try this asap! <3 GIGLove
Never been fond of grapefruit but this looks delicious.
it look refreshing and yummy!!YUM YUM! i am so hungry now!
Not a huge fan of grapefruit! But this sounds amazingly delicious =)
I feel hungry see your picture!! Send me some.It look yummy
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nice picture that you took and good recipe for sharing with us. you made me so hungry and my mouth so watering right now :’)
nice picture that you took and good recipe for sharing with us. you are made my mouth so watering right now. XD
I’ve never tried a grapefruit cake before. This one looks delicious.
Thank you 🙂
this sounds lovely! ive never actually thought about a grapefruit cake. always lemon or orange.
Oh my this looks delish! I haven’t had this before but I love lemon drizzle. Wish I was better at cooking/baking x
I’ve never had a grapefruit cake before, not kiwi too. I’m always eating chocolate cakes and hardly try out other flavours at all. Haha, cakes aren’t exactly good for our health and weighing scale reading, so if I were to eat any, it has to be the flavour I love the most!
I must agree with you, chocolate cake is my favorite too 🙂
I love kiwis, and once you gain success in your experiments, it’d be awesome to see a recipe!
I kind of given up on a kiwi cake idea 🙁
oh my goodness, that just looks beyond delicious, the photos are just absolutely fab! Thank you for sharing the recipe! x
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I have never used grapefruit in any of my cooking, as am not particularly fond of it. But this cake looks delicious, and I would happily eat it, grapefruit and all.
This looks AMAZING! I am starving just looking at it!
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This sounds amazing! I can almost taste it 🙂
I would never have thought to add grapefruit when baking, it does sound delicious.
Never heard of grapefruit cake here in Indonesia! Looks fun to try ^^
Thanks for sharing <3
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OMG this looks AMAZING - i really need to try this
Looks amazing! I’ve never tried grapefruit in a cake before but this looks really really tempting.
I have not had grapefruit cake. But it sounds delish!!
I love cakes made with tasty fruit like lemon etc so would probably love this too.
This looks dreamy!!! I love cakes made of fruit, but have yet to try this. Thanks for sharing!
this looks really yummy and very easy to do, will try to do it myself too! Thanks for the recipe !
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I make a mean lemon drizzle cake - had never thought of trying it with grapefruit but am definitely going to now!
Anything with drizzle icing on is a winner in my book! I’d never have thought of grapefruit, but bet it’s lovely x
oooh, now that is so my kind of pudding!! I absolutely love grapefruit and that looks delicious. Yum!!
That looks absolutely delightful x
oh dear! I hate coming to your site because I realise I cannot cook for saving my own life. Wish me luck, I want to try this recipe.
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This cake looks so delicious and the recipe looks easy too, i should try this one 🙂
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Oh wow! This looks amazing. I will have to make this for my family!
wow this sounds amazing! I don’t eat cake all that often, but I love grapefruit and this looks delicious and like it would taste amazing with tea which I love and drink all the time 🙂 thanks for sharing ♥
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God, this blog made me so hungry.
looks yummy. I’ve never heard of a grapefruit cake before,
I bet this is lovely, a zesty grapefruit flavour yum
This sounds lovely, and I just really love the zing of citrus in cakes 🙂
Oh wow this looks so good, I haven’t had cake for ages!! xxx
I’ve never thought of grapefruit in a cake/bread before! Sounds refreshing!
Oh my mouth is watering. I love lemon drizzle cake and this sounds delicious
Wow! This sounds amazing! I think i will give it a go at the weekend! Thanks so much for sharing x
My mouth is salivating at reading this… im usually pulling faces at grapefruits, but this could be the way I get part of my 5 a day? 😉 lol. Never heard of a kiwi cake before though….
oh i am partial to a grapefruit so would really love to try this! .. it looks amazing
I’m on a very strict diet at the moment but this is making me want cake so badly. I’ve never had grapefruit cake before, but I’ve had kiwi cake but like you said it is just kiwis placed on top.
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