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on January 25, 2024

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Tangerine Upside-down Cake (Mandalinalı Kek) Recipe

Would you like to try Tangerine Upside-down Cake recipe before the winter ends? Hope you love citrus cake? We love it alot. Actually, We love the combination of sour and sweet.

In this post, we are going to share the most flavourful cake of the season is here for you to try at your home. Tangerine Upside Down Cake is a moist and delicious way to get your Vitamin C. This Tangerine Upside-down Cake will hit the right spots on every bite for all the right reasons. It is moist, citrusy, tastes divine, if you are a lover of citrus fruits, you are going to like this for sure. We hope that you will enjoy making this cake for your family and friends.

We love fruit-based desserts like this tangerine upside-down cake. It is perfect for the winter cold days and it is also perfect for the warmer seasons where you still want cake, but don’t want something that is heavy and will weigh you down. This cake is sweet, zesty, and very refreshing. The cake crumb is moist, while the tangerines on top become beautifully caramelized.

History of Tangerine & Oranges

The tangerine and orange trees are very beautiful. They have a lot of shiny green leaves. Their small white flowers smell ery sweet and these trees have flower and fruits at tema time. Actually oranges, lemons, even Meyer lemons, grapefruits and bergamots are all related to wild mandarins, as are many of today’s most commercially very important citrus fruits. Tangerines are also, kinda. Some are distinct fruits grown around Tangiers region in Morocco, but in the U.S. they are hybrids of mandarins and pomelos.

According to historians both tangerines and oranges come from the China. There were tangerine and orange trees twenty million years ago. At taht time time, tangerines and oranges were very small, not like te ones today. Many different wild tangerines and oranges grow in China today. In other other words, these tangerines and oranges growth in nature. The Chinese started to raise tangerine and orange trees around 2400 B.C.; Chinese art has lovely old pictures of tangerine and orange trees.

How to Make Tangerine Upside-down Cake (Mandalinalı Kek)!

To make this delicious tangerine upside-down cake, you will need ingredients like all purpose flour, sugar, eggs, sun flower oil, milk, baking powder, vanilla and of course, tangerines. But, if you don't want to use eggs and milk. You can use apple cider vinegar instead of eggs and you can use almond milk instead of dairy. Finish off with melted marmalade, and you have a sweet, tender cake that will leave you wanting more.

Bye the way, this cake preparation is really super easy and its recipe is not complicated. Hope you try this recipe in your kitchen. We are sure you like it.

Whole tangerine cake recipe

Recipe for Tangerine Upside-down Cake (Mandalinalı Kek)!

If you don’t mind dairy, feel free to use any other milk in this recipe. Also if you want, you can use a gluten-free flour blend to make this cake gluten-free.

Here it is Tangerine Upside-down Cake (Mandalinalı Kek) recipe;

Serve: 8-10 servings, Preparation Time: 20 minutes, Cooking Time: 40 minutes, Cuisine: Mediterranean / Anatolian Cuisines,

Very good family favourite;

Ingredients: 6 or 8 Normal size fresh tangerines,
(2 for the Juice, 1 for the peels),

Ingredients: 3 Eggs,

Ingredients: Nearly a cup of granulated sugar,

Ingredients: Nearly 1/2 cup of whole milk,

Ingredients: 1/2 cup of sunflower oil,

Ingredients: 2 cups of all porpuse flour,

Ingredients: 1 Teaspoon of baking powder
and vanilla extract,

Utensils : A baking pan or cake mold,
and enough size of parchment paper,

Start recipe by prepping the tangerines. First peel them,

Then grate 1 or 2 tangerine's skin into a bowl,

And squeeze 2 tangerines to get the juice,

Then slice tangerines crosswise, in slices of 2 halves,

Then place the parchment paper into the baking,

And then sprinkle a little granulated sugar over the pan,

Lastly place the tangerine slice in the bottom of
the baking pan, making sure that
whole surface is covered,

Meanwhile prepare your cake mixture,
put eggs and sugar in a bowl and use an electric
mixer to beat the eggs and sugar very well,

Until it becomes creamy and the sugar is totally melted.

Then add milk, sunflower oil, tangerine juice
and grated tangerine peel and
continue beating for a couple of minutes,

Then sift your flour through a sieve to avoid lumps,

Then add vanilins, baking powder
and flour into the liquid mixture,

At this point use the lowest level of mixer
and do not beat for a long time. It is done
as soon as the flour is absorbed
homogeneously in the liquid,

Then pour the cake mixture on the prepared
baking pan, especially pour the batter
gently over the sliced tangerines,

Preheat your oven to 180°C (356°F)
and put it in the preheated oven,

And bake your cake at 180°C (356°F)
until golden brown. It takes nearly 40 mins.

Then remove it from the oven
and let it sit in the pan for 30 mins.
Then flip it over onto a cooling rack or serving plate

Enjoy! It goes well with a cup of hot tea or coffee,

Ingredients:

6 or 8 Normal size fresh tangerines, (2 for the Juice, 1 for the peels),
3 Eggs,
150 or 170 gr granulated sugar, (nearly a cup of sugar),
100 or 150 ml whole milk, (nearly 1/2 cup of milk),
1/2 Cup of sunflower oil,
2 Cups of all porpuse flour, (nearly 400 gr), (Sift the flour through a sieve to avoid lumps),
1 Teaspoon of baking powder, (nearly 10 gr),
1 Teaspoons of vanilla extract, (nearly 10 gr),

Utensils;

A baking pan or cake mold,
Enough size of parchment paper for the baking pan or cake mold,

Preparation:

First of all, put your all ingredients on the work table. Then start by prepping the tangerines. First peel them, then grate one or two tangerine's skin into a bowl and squeeze 2 tangerines to get the juice and set aside.
Then slice your tangerines crosswise, in slices of 2 halves (or slice them crosswise, in slices of about ½ inches ). Then place the parchment paper into the baking pan and then sprinkle a little granulated sugar over the pan and place the tangerine slice in the bottom of the baking pan, making sure that the whole surface is covered.
Meanwhile, prepare your cake mixture. Firstly, put eggs and granulated sugar in a bowl and use an electric mixer to beat the eggs and sugar very well until it becomes creamy and the sugar is totally melted. Then add the milk, sunflower oil, tangerine juice and grated tangerine peel and continue beating for a couple of minutes.
Then, sift your flour through a sieve to avoid lumps. Then add vanilins, baking powder and flour into the liquid mixture. At this point use the lowest level of your mixer and do not beat for a long time. It is done as soon as the flour is absorbed homogeneously in the liquid.
Then, pour the cake mixture on the prepared baking pan, especially pour the batter gently over the sliced tangerines, and preheat your oven to 180°C (356 °F) and put it in the preheated oven.
And bake your cake at 180°C (356 °F) until golden brown on top or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. This process takes nearly 40 minutes. Then remove it from the oven and let it sit in the pan for 30 minutes to cool down. Then flip it over onto a cooling rack or serving plate.

Enjoy!

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