🐼 Steemit Iron Chef 2017 #13 Orange Cake & Orange Cherry Crepe Suzette

Orange Cake

When I saw oranges as the theme for this week I was really excited. I love oranges and really enjoy cooking and baking with them.
I usually like to have my entry in early and hate these last minute rushes. This week I knew that I wasn't going to be able to have my entry in early but I didn't plan on being this late.
First set-back was that we had a promo-steem crypto-currency seminar on Saturday which was a huge success. @starkerz spoke on steemit and gave us some great new insight and @deimus spoke about security and viewly. @patrickm was also there to share his crypto-currency knowledge.

These guys are really working hard for us. @starkerz @patrickm and @deimus

So, sadly I was not able to visit my Saturday market to pick up my weekly groceries and in particular, my oranges.

On Sunday we went to To Hani in Cyprus - Tracey's Cookery school for a most amazing Sunday Roast lamb with roast potatoes and to my delight the orchard was full of beautiful oranges. I asked permission to pick some - and that really made my day. Now I had oranges off the tree for my recipes.

A treat to pick my oranges off the tree - thank you Tracey

Enough about my busy week and looking after and feeding my "boys" and onto my recipes for the entry.

The first one turned out so much better than expected. I had some lovely home-made pickled cherries so decided to do a variation of crepe suzette and called it Orange Cherry Crepe Suzette.

First I prepared the crepes: We all have our favourite pancake recipes but this one I found in my late mother's hand written recipe book - and where I also found the recipe for the cherry and orange filling

230g Plain flour
2m salt
2m sugar
2 eggs
500m milk

Sift flour, salt and sugar into a bowl. Make a well in the centre of flour and break eggs in one at a time. Add milk gradually until the mixture is smooth. The batter should be runny. Cover and leave to stand for 30 minutes.

Cherry and Orange filling for crepes:

60g butter
90g caster sugar
Rind of 1/2 orange cut into strips
2 tablespoons of orange juice
1 tsp lemon juice
1 cup pickled cherries (a tin of cherries otherwise)
Tsp of brandy and Tsp of Kirsch cherry licquor

Now I didn't have any brandy or kirsch in the house but I found this amazing honey licquor

I have no idea where it came from or who bought it but I certainly hope I can find it again. It made the flavour unbelievable. I also substituted brown sugar instead of the castor sugar.

Melted the butter and added all the other ingredients into a pan and added the flour last for thickening.

I poured a cap of rum for the flambe.
My photograph with all the crepes in the pan didn't come out.

@starkerz and @deimus were my guinea pigs for this for breakfast - and I got several compliments so that made up for the lack of the main
photograph

Served for breakfast

Next I tackled the Orange Cake - also an idea from my late mother's cookbook

125g butter
1 egg yolk and 2 whole eggs
1 cup castor sugar
1.5 cups flour
10ml baking powder
2ml salt
125m orangejuice
5ml orangerind
5ml vanilla essence

Method:
Beat eggs and egg yolk add sugar gradually
Add sifted dry ingredients
Heat butter and orangejuice stirring well
Lastly add rind and vanilla essence.
Bake in a moderate oven for 20 - 25 minutes in shallow pans to make layers

Orange Icing sugar

Add **orange **juice instead of milk to icing sugar

Layer the cake with the orangeicing sugar and dust icing on top.

My proof photograph

Believe it or not, I also served this up to the boys - but lucky for them - after egg and bacon - they didn't really complain.

Now that my entry is going in I can think of some really healthy meals to serve them for the rest of the week. Tuna and salad boys?