Cake with mastic and orange

Posted on Jul 2, 2010 in Desserts | 0 comments

INGREDIENTS

• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 3 eggs
• ½ cup orange juice
• ½ cup milk
• 300 gr. raising flour
• zest of one orange
• 1 teaspoon mastic (crushed)
• 1 shot cointreau

For the syrup

• 1 cup sugar
• ½ cup water
• 1 orange peel
• some cointreau

For dusting

• 4-5 tablespoons almond kernel
• 1 tablespoon icing sugar
• little crushed mastic

METHOD

1. Beat butter with sugar to get white and distend.
2. Add eggs one by one, the mastic zest and cointreau.
3. Mix the milk with the orange juice and add to mixture alternately with the flour until it becomes a mush viscid.
4. Butter an oblong form and put the cake to bake in preheated oven 180oC in air for almost an 1h.
5. Prepare syrup
   • Add all ingredients in a pot.
   • Leave it to boil and remove it from heat to cool.
6. Once the cake let it cool a bit and then overturn in a platter.
7. Pour the syrup that has cooled.
8. Make an mixture with the almond kernel, the icing sugar and crushed mastic and sprinkle the cake.