I mentioned the other day how much I loved the movie, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.” There is a clementine cake mentioned in the film — one I’ve tried to reproduce.
Ingredients
Cake:
1 cup butter
1 1/2 cups white sugar
8 egg yolks
3/4 cup milk
3 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon cardamom
Juice of one orange
Zest of ½ of one orange
1 cup sour cream
2 cups cake flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
Frosting:
2 cups powdered sugar
1 small can of mandarin oranges, in juice
Directions:
Heat oven to 350. Grease large cupcake tins, or a bundt pan. Cream sugar and butter. Add eggs. Slowly add in cake flour, vanilla, cardamom, and remaining ingredients. Bake for 32 minutes (cupcake tins) or 35-40 minutes (bunt pan). While baking, whisk juice from can of mandarins and powdered sugar. Once cakes have cooled, spoon glaze over top, adding a mandarin or two for garnish.
Voila! The daydreaming adventures of where you may end up eating these is up to you. I’m sitting on the beach in Fiji, getting a massage and watching dolphins play in the water. There are a stack of new novels sitting at my side. Nelson is playing in the surf and I’ve got nothing to do but eat magical cake for the rest of the afternoon…
~K