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Recipe: Upside-Down Blood Orange Cake

from NY Times Cooking A Perfect Valentine’s Day Treat! Serves 8 Ingredients: 2 sticks plus 3 tablespoons unsalted butter at room temperature 2/3 cup light brown sugar 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice 2 medium-sized blood oranges 1 cup fine cornmeal 1/2

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Recipe: Mandarin Syrup Cake

by Nadia Lim Ingredients: Cake: about 1 lb whole mandarins 2 1/4 cups blanched almond flour 1 cup sugar or honey 5 eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 tsp baking powder Syrup: 1/4 cu sugar juice of 1 mandarin juice

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Recipe – Glazed Apple and Pecan Cake

A square slice of apple cake topped with a toasted pecan and drizzled with a glaze.

Ellen, a Piedmont site member, sent us a recipe for Glazed Pear and Pecan Cake saying she’d made it twice with our Warren pears and that it was “outrageously good for relatively little effort.” Here’s the apple version.

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