No blood oranges, unfortunately, but just regular oranges still makes for a delicious cake. This was Tim's first day of new work cake. Shouldn't every first day of work end with a cake?
I only made half of this recipe, just making it two layers based on the ridiculous amount of cake for two people. Now that there is only one piece left in the fridge, I kind of wish that I had made the full thing. This is a great cake. Dense and not too sweet, I would absolutely put this on my cake rotation. The frosting needed a bit of a reboot after the first time we tried it, but then it was absolutely delicious.
On the first go around the dates were too tough, so they didn't cream and there were chunks of dates in the frosting. It was an overwhelming date flavor and sickly sweet. Probably because I didn't soak the dates first. The next day I scraped the frosting off and added milk, lots more cocoa, and the rest of my orange juice left over from the cake portion, and then it tasted grand.
Thanks for saving me a piece. So tasty. I could not believe that the frosting was only sweetened with dates.
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