Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Eggless Grapefruit Olive Oil Cake

Am not a big fan of grapefruits, but my better half adore the grapefruits and he never stopped buying them...I tried out making this cake using grapefruit yesterday for our snacks, for my surprise the addition of grapefruit turned out the cake more flavourful and prefect,i used olive oil and completely skipped butter in this cake...Its a super moist, fluffy, sweet and fabulous cake which suits marvellously for a evening snacks or simply as a dessert...Soak this cake once they comes out of the oven with a simple grapefruit syrup with grapefruit juice and sugar, this cake tastes superb with a fantabulous texture and we loved a lot...Needless to say that this cake gets vanished in less time, i was planning to make some muffins soon with grapefruits..

Grapefruit &Olive Oil Cake


2cups All purpose flour
1cup Corn flour
1+1/4cups Sugar
1tbsp Flax seed meal
1cup Grapefruit juice
1cup Yoghurt
1cup Olive oil
1tsp Baking powder
1tsp Baking soda

Grapefruit Syrup:
1/2cup Grapefruit juice
1tsp Grapefruit peels
1/4cup Sugar

Preheat the oven at 350F...Mix the flax seed meal in a 3tbsp of luke warm water as thick paste..Combine together the all purpose flour, corn flour, baking soda, baking powder in a large vessel...beat together the sugar, yoghurt, olive oil, grapefruit juice until everything turns soft...add gradually the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients along with flax seed meal paste,mix well with a spatula..grease a cake pan and pour the batter..

Place the cake mould in the middle rack and bake for 35-40minutes or until the skewer comes out clean...

Meanwhile make a syrup by boiling the grapefruit juice, grapefruit peels and sugar,once the sugar gets dissolved,put off the stove and strain the syrup, let them cool completely..Pour this syrup over the cake,make small holes with a skewer on the top of the cake and let it sit for few minutes until the syrup gets absorbed by the cake..cool it completely..

Slice them as u desire and enjoy!

33 comments:

Vimitha Durai said... Reply To This Comment

What a yummy combination of flavors in a spongy and soft cake...

Swathi said... Reply To This Comment

Grapefruit cake looks awesome moist and soft. love citrus in my bakes.

KrithisKitchen said... Reply To This Comment

Yummy, yummy yummy... so good... never tried grapefruit... love the fruit based eggless butterless loaf cake... simply superb..
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Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Great idea Priya..Cake looks very yummy..

Reshmi Mahesh said... Reply To This Comment

Great idea....The cake looks super soft and moist....

Laavanya said... Reply To This Comment

THat does look very fluffy and your description makes me want to try. Can i substitute the grape fruit juice with orange juice?

Padma said... Reply To This Comment

Wow Grapefruit can be used in Cakes too!! that's an amazing recipe, with a good picture.... I would surely love to have it as a dessert soaked in grapfruit syrup and topped with little whip cream and fresh raspberries
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Sobha Shyam said... Reply To This Comment

wow..cake looks fabulous..soft n fluffy..yum yum..!! great idea with grapefruit :)

Raji said... Reply To This Comment

This is one healthy cake with lovely flavour of grapefruit...very innovative.

GEETHA ACHAL said... Reply To This Comment

This cake looks so moist and soft..Never used to imagine this combination...Love it...

Elisabeth said... Reply To This Comment

Priya-This is an amazing cake...can't get over the fact that it has no eggs, and it's so moist, and flavorful. Must be the yoghurt that replaces the eggs:DDD

BTW-You missed you name on the list of the awards...I did pass on the Versatile Award to you too, just have not had the time, since I just posted it to let you know!
Congratulations, my dear friend! You deserved it a thousand times over!
xo

Sunanda said... Reply To This Comment

Cake looks yummy!! I'm craving for this now.
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Sangeetha M said... Reply To This Comment

Healthy n delicious cake...cake with grapefruit is really innovative...the pictures is more inviting...soft,moist yum....

Binys Recipes said... Reply To This Comment

hey the cake really looking gud... moist though no eggs

Suja Manoj said... Reply To This Comment

Flavorful and soft..delicious cake

Pushpa said... Reply To This Comment

Delicious cake with healthy ingredients.Love it.

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

wow, so many lovely combinations :)

Sensible Vegetarian said... Reply To This Comment

Very beautifully baked, looks so soft and moist.

Sushma Mallya said... Reply To This Comment

Beautifully baked cake Priya:)

Vardhini said... Reply To This Comment

Looks so delicious .. :)

Vardhini
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Mélange said... Reply To This Comment

The bread has come out perfect.I am trying to imagine the flavour.colourful & yummy !!

Suparna said... Reply To This Comment

havent tasted this flavour yet ..sounds exotic!! the cake looks yummmm

Mugdha said... Reply To This Comment

looks soo soft and delicious...will soon try it..:)

Mehjabeen Arif said... Reply To This Comment

This looks heavenly.. So crumbly and moist !

Anudeepa Kadiresan said... Reply To This Comment

Looks yummy and soft...

Vimitha Durai said... Reply To This Comment

Lovely flavors in a gorgeous looking cake dear...

Smita P said... Reply To This Comment

prefectly baked cake..so much healthy !

Vaishali Sharma said... Reply To This Comment

That cake looks gorgeous and inviting! I dont like grapefruit but i seriously wouldn't mind trying this grapefruit cake!

swapna said... Reply To This Comment

Delicious cake....

Anonymous said... Reply To This Comment

I've tried hard many times to love grapefruit, but in vain! I can't just get over with the bitter taste of it. Making cake out of it sounds perfect, now I have a reason to buy grapefruits. Thanks for sharing!

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

citrusy and yummy for sure....came out perfect!

AJ said... Reply To This Comment

Beautiful - isn't olive oil wonderful for cakes!!

Ivy said... Reply To This Comment

What a wonderful recipe Priya. I want to try this one soon.