Clementine Cake

Name: Clementine Cake
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 9 ounces, clementines, unpeeled, stemmed (about 5 clementines); 2 1/4 cups (7½ ounces) sliced, blanched almonds, toasted; 1 cup (5 ounces), all-purpose flour; 1 1/4 teaspoons, baking powder; 1/4 teaspoon, salt; 10 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 10 pieces and softened; 1 1/2 cups (10½ ounces), granulated sugar; 5 , large eggs; 4 , clementines, unpeeled, stemmed; 1 cup, water; 1 cup (7 ounces), granulated sugar; 1/8 teaspoons, salt; 2 cups (8 ounces), confectioners' sugar; 2 1/2 tablespoons, water, plus extra as needed; Pinch , salt

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Appears in Cook's Country February/March 2019

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SERVES8

TIME2 hours, plus 2 hours cooling and 1 hour setting

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To achieve the maximum amount of bright, floral clementine flavor, we put clementines both inside and on top of our Clementine Cake. For the batter, we relied on the standard creaming process but added clementines that we had softened in th...

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