Biltong Eclairs
With the winter bounty of citrus fruits currently available – everything ranging from lemons to oranges to grapefruit to limes to kumquats to pomelo and Minneola’s… just to name a few, we are spoilt for choice. I do have a personal favourite though… naartjies! (Or Satsumas as they are known to people outside of South Africa). And my show-stopper recipe when it comes to naartjies… my upside down naartjie cake – YUM!
Naartjie Upside Down Cake
Author: Zola Nene
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Serves: 8-10
Ingredients
- 4 naartjies
- 4 Tbs brown sugar
- 4 Tbs golden syrup
- 4 Tbs butter
For the sponge
- 120g butter, softened
- 120g brown sugar
- 2 naartjies, zested and juiced
- 2 eggs
- 175ml Amasi (or buttermilk)
- 160g cake flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180C.
- Thinly slice the naartjies and boil for 3 minutes.
- Remove from the water, then place onto a tray to cool.
- Line a round spring form cake tin with greaseproof paper.
- Melt together the butter, brown sugar and syrup then pour into the cake tin.
- Lay the naartjie slices on top in a circle, overlapping them slightly.
- Make sponge by creaming together the butter, sugar and naartjie zest.
- Whisk together naartjie juice, eggs, and buttermilk.
- Sift together flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda.
- Fold dry and wet ingredients alternately into the creamed butter and sugar.
- Spoon mixture onto the naartjies, then bake for 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the sponge comes out clean.
- Allow to cool for 10 minutes before turning out and upside down.
- Serve with a dollop of fresh cream.
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Photo credit: Gunther Schubert
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