If y’all have been reading my posts often then you know my true love for Strawberry Shortcake! I mean — I die for a homemade shortcake! So delicious! Which is why I truly fell in love with Chef Noah French of TAG Restaurant in Denver when I heard he has a recipe for a Summer Citrus Shortcake.
My heart belongs to the strawberries, but on the other hand, I do have a little rendezvous with the peach occasionally, and now — NOW! to find out that I may be converting all together to a Lemon?! How can this be, you may ask?! Oh, just try it….you’ll understand. Trust me 🙂
Summer Citrus Shortcake
Orange Chiffon cake with Lemon curd, whipped cream and fresh citrus
Orange Chiffon Cake
1/2 Cup + 1 Tbsp. All-Purpose Flour
1/2 Cup Sugar
Pinch of Salt
1/4 Tsp. Baking Powder
1/3 Cup Vegetable Oil
Zest of 1 Orange
2 Egg Yolks
1/3 cup Water
1/4 tsp. Vanilla
2 Egg Whites
1 Tbsp. Sugar
Combine all dry ingredients and orange zest in bowl (except for last amount of sugar) and reserve.
Combine oil, water, eggs, and vanilla in a separate bowl and mix together.
Add wet ingredients to dry and mix thoroughly.
Start whipping the egg whites
Gradually add sugar in stages until whites are stiff.
Fold in a third of the egg whites into the other mixture. Fold in the rest.
Scoop in into a large sprayed muffin pan filling 3Ž4 the way up.
Bake at 350* for approx. 20 mins or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted into the center of the cake.
Lemon Curd
3 eggs
3 egg yolks
1Ž2 cup Sugar
Fine zest of 3 lemons
3/4 cup lemon juice
4 Tbsp. butter
Combine all ingredients except for butter and Cook on a double boiler
When mixture has thickened and the foam had disappeared, take off the heat and start to add the butter piece by piece and whisk in.
Strain into a bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and chill.
Whipped Cream
1 cup heavy
5 Tbsp. sugar (or 4 Tbsp. for less sweetness)
2 tsp. vanilla extract
Whip till medium to stiff peak
Assembly
Slice cake in half.
Spread a of spoonful of curd onto bootom half. Place orange segments ontop and a dollop or pipe whipped cream ontop.
Place some more orange segments on plate.
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