I begin this post with a heavy heart. One of the founders of #BundtaMonth has suffered a personal loss. My heart goes out to her and her family. I know there is nothing I can say or do that will ease her pain, only time will help to temper that sting. All I can offer is support, peace and healing thoughts from afar. Be strong my friend.
As far as I’m concerned grapefruit is an underused fruit when it comes to baking. Truly, it is a rare thing when I happen upon a cake or pastry that uses grapefruit as the citrus element rather than say lemon or orange. And I happen to really like grapefruit…so does my husband for that matter.
So I decided for my January #BundtaMonth posting I would use grapefruit as my citrus element. While we’re on flavors I favor, poppy seeds are a crunchy little favorite of mine too, so move over lemon poppy seed cake and say hello to Grapefruit Poppy Seed Bundt Cake! Mwah!
I started out with the aforementioned lemon version and tweaked the recipe just a tad, replacing the lemon with ruby red grapefruit and the crème fraiche with a sour cream/ half and half combo (you could use heavy cream, I just didn’t have any on hand). I also modified the leavener a bit. I was hoping the ruby reds would give the cake a pinkish glow, no such luck.
I decided to give the cake a flavor boost by brushing a soaking liquid onto the just-out-of-the-oven-stabbed-with-a-skewer-cake and the topped it off with a wee bit of glaze. I had fun.
I picked up a new pan for this one, it’s the blossom Bundt and while I like the shape I’m not sold on this gold tone pan. My cake came out a bit darker than I like but not over cooked. I’ll give it another chance before I relegate it to the back of my closet.
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Grapefruit Poppy Seed Cake
Adapted from Cake Simple by Christie Matheson”
Ingredients – Cake
3 cups AP flour
1/4 cup Poppy Seeds
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups butter, at room temperature
2 cups sugar in the raw
6 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons fresh squeezed grapefruit juice
2 teaspoons freshly grated grapefruit zest
1/3 cup sour cream mixed with 1/4 cup half and half (you can use heavy cream if you have that on hand)
Ingredients – Soaking Liquid
1 cup fresh squeezed grapefruit juice
2/3 cup granulated sugar
Ingredients – Glaze
3/4 cup confectioners’ sugar
2-3 teaspoons grapefruit juice
1 teaspoon half & half (or heavy cream, or milk)
Pinch of salt
Instructions – Cake
1. Grease and flour your Bundt pan, set aside
2. Preheat the oven to 325°F
3. Whisk the flour, poppy seeds, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl and set aside.
4. In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 2-3 minutes.
5. Add the eggs one at a time mixing between additions.
6. Add the vanilla, grapefruit juice, grapefruit zest and combine.
7. Turn your mixer down to low. In three installments each, alternate adding the flour and sour cream/half & half mixture to the butter mixture (Begin and end with the flour).
8. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth out the top. Bake for 50-60 minutes, checking at the 50 minute mark for doneness by inserting s skewer into the center of the cake. If it comes out clean, it’s done.
9. While the cake is baking, make the soaking liquid.
10. As soon as you take the cake out of the oven, take your skewer and poke holes into it without going all the way to the bottom. Immediately brush the glaze all over the cake. I used about half of it.
11. Allow the cake to cool completely in the pan on a wire rack.
12. Invert onto a plate.
13. Drizzle Glaze over cake and serve.
Instructions – Soaking Liquid
1. Add the sugar and grapefruit juice to a saucepan and bring to a boil, stirring gently to dissolve.
2. Lower to a simmer, stirring occasionally until it has reduced to about half. This should take approximately 10 minutes.
Instructions – Glaze
1. Whisk 2 teaspoons grapefruit juice and 1 teaspoon half and half into confectioners’ sugar. Add additional juice if needed to get a thick but flowing consistency.
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I agree about grapefruit, and I will be trying this cake very soon! The poppy seeds are perfect here, and glazing right out of the oven makes for a wonderful cake to eat. Just beautiful Deb!
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Love the poppy seed and grapefruit combination! The glaze is sheer perfection Deb! Lovely recipe! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
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I love grapefruit. Thanks for sharing this recipe because I also want to bake more with it.
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Clearly, great minds think alike 😉 I made a grapefruit bundt this month and was also hoping for a pinkish color. Love your addition of poppy seeds. I love poppy seed cakes! Yours sounds fantastic and that glaze is just gorgeous!
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So pretty, love the poppy seeds!!! Such a gorgeous pan too! I am going to have to go shopping I tell you to keep up with you ladies. Nicely done!
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I think the cake came out beautifully!! And the color! Love the addition of poppy seeds. . the shot showing the inside of the slice looks amazing and so delicious! I really like grapefruit too so will have to give this one a try! 🙂
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I can’t think of the last time I baked with grapefruit, wonderful idea!!
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I don’t often wish I could eat grapefruit (meds) but this is definitely one of those times. Yum!
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Yum to grapefruit and poppy seeds! What a beautiful cake and I don’t think it is too dark at all. I’d say it was just perfectly golden. I love that you soaked it AND glazed it! Delicious!
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I have never baked with grapefruit… I think this is something I need to change asap! Your cake looks amazing!
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This looks so delicious! I love grapefruit too and use it quite often in my bakes and jelly.
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Yummy, want to try some
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This looks so delicious! I want to try some!!! Will do this on Sunday..
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