Blood Orange Bread

Erin and I wanted to make a blood orange cake. We searched and searched an the only thing we could find was the Blood Orange Olive Oil Cake. (We had already tried the Anticraft Blood orange cake, but again without having poppyseed filling.) This sounded wrong on so many levels. So we went with more of a bread instead.

Gather together:

• Butter for greasing pan
• 3 blood oranges (segmented without membranes)
  
• 1 cup sugar
• Buttermilk
  
• 3 large eggs
• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2/3 cup of butter
• 1/4 cup blood orange juice

Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray your loaf pan down with Pam or butter or use your misto. Cream the butter and sugar. Add eggs, buttermilk and juice. Next slowly add in all the dry ingredients. When this is mixed up pretty well, fold in the blood oranges. Put mixture in to pan and allow to bake for 55 minutes.


We served this with a simple syrup make from sugar and blood orange juice. This turned out more like orange muffins than like a cake. I bet it would make pretty good muffins.