{"id":113,"date":"2007-06-20T17:25:20","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T22:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/?p=113"},"modified":"2007-10-29T18:10:53","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T23:10:53","slug":"41-orange-poppy-seed-cake-p706","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"41. Orange-Poppy Seed Cake p.706"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/41-orange-poppy-seed-cake-p-706-small.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sorry, no recipe.<\/p>\n<p>I made this cake for a friend&#8217;s birthday party. The best way I can describe it is as a brunchy coffee-cake dressed up for dinner. During the day it works down at the espresso shack as that cute poppy seed loaf in the counter. It&#8217;s moist and rich with sour cream, and has a very pleasant fluffy but yielding texture. The cake has 2 tsp of orange zest mixed in, which are understated during the day, but they&#8217;ll sparkle at night.<\/p>\n<p>After work the cake turns it up for an evening on the town. Most of the citrus flavour comes from the Grand-Marnier orange juice syrup it slips on. Paired with a flirty dollop of creme-fraiche, and a burst of berries to make the outfit pop it&#8217;s ready to go anywhere you&#8217;d care to take it.<\/p>\n<p>This cake was simple to put together, it did require making a meringue, and some folding to keep the airy texture I was looking for, but it&#8217;s basically a breeze. Once the cake is baked little holes are poked all over and it&#8217;s bathed in the Grand Marnier syrup.<\/p>\n<p>Grand Marnier is my favorite digestif, so I&#8217;m always happy to have it show up in desserts. The zip of the creme fraice was nice, but it was a touch heavy and coating. Serving this a la mode, or with whipped cream might have worked, or better yet with nothing at all. I had intended to top it with berries, but when I made it good looking berries were not to be found. No great loss as this cake stands up all on it&#8217;s own.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; height: 25px; width: 125px\">\n<div style=\"position: absolute; top:0; left:0; height: 25px; width: 100px; background: url(http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/wp-content\/plugins\/rating-bar\/rating-front.png) left\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 100px; height: 25px; width: 25px; background: url(http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/wp-content\/plugins\/rating-bar\/rating-back.png) right\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, no recipe. I made this cake for a friend&#8217;s birthday party. The best way I can describe it is as a brunchy coffee-cake dressed up for dinner. During the day it works down at the espresso shack as that cute poppy seed loaf in the counter. It&#8217;s moist and rich with sour cream, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,2],"tags":[301,119,297,300,114,298,302,65,299,64,295,296],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gourmetproject.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}