Tuesdays with Dorie BWD: Chunky Citrus Cornmeal Cake

January 9, 2024 at 10:42 pm | Posted in BWD, cakes & tortes, groups, simple cakes, sweet things, tuesdays with dorie | 3 Comments
Tags: baking, brekkie, cake

Dorie’s Chunky Lemon Cornmeal Cake is a sunny loaf, getting color and flavor from cornmeal, lemon zest, chopped up lemon segments and sumac. I happened to notice a few bags of cute, tiny, bright orange calamansi at my neighborhood grocer. I’ve only ever come across calamansi here as frozen juice at some of the Asian grocery stores, so I snapped up a bag. Even though I didn’t have any plans for them, I like to be sure to buy things that I don’t normally see on the shelves so my store knows people are interested.

I sat on the calamansi in the fridge for a few days and then thought I could use them in this cake. Prep was super easy, since you can eat the whole fruit…they have thin, sweet skins with almost no pith and puckery, tart insides. I simply quartered each calamansi, popped out any seeds or membrane I found and used them in the simple one-bowl cake batter just like that. I left out the sumac, but I had about a tablespoon and a half of spiced sugar left from some holiday cookies and I sprinkled that on top of the cake batter before I put it in the oven for a little crust.

This was so tasty with the little pops of calamansi and it stayed fresh for several days. I loved the color and the texture (just a bit gritty from the cornmeal) and was super pleased when I cut into the cake.

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That was a fun read! I love how you buy things so the grocers know people are interested! I feel like you were onto something with using your orange chunkier..it said to make them small and I feel like mine dissolved into the cake. It wasn’t as delicious as yours sounds..or looks for that matter haha.

Comment by isthisakeeper— January 18, 2024 #

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Wow…now I need to make this again and put in BIG chunks of fruit…she did name it chunky, right? Yours looks beautiful. I kept waiting for you to show up with those calamansis like we discussed but I guess I missed you. Next time. The IG photo of them were so cute, I figured that is where they would end up. Fun to see what you did with them.

Comment by Kayte Gerth— January 20, 2024 #

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Sunny loaf is a good description. It looks yummy and now I have to research calamansi.

Comment by Diane Zwang— January 23, 2024 #

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a whisk and a spoon