~Blood Moon Cake~
a fluffy tahini chai cake with labneh icing and blood orange, rosewater & wild blueberry droplets. the perfect cake for ur blood moon sacrifices, or for when ur just feeling a lil bit evil and cunty!
<3 lil sweetie
cake
ingredients:
3 eggs
1 cup greek yogurt
½ cup sugar
3 tbsp tahini
1 tbsp vanilla
1 ½ cups almond flour
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp baking powder
2-3 tsp cardamom
2-3 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp cloves
1 tsp nutmeg
½ tsp ground ginger
a few pinches of salt
a few grinds of black pepper
1 chai tea bag
directions: preheat oven to 325 degrees. grease a 9in cake pan. in a bowl, combine eggs, yogurt, sugar, tahini, and vanilla. whip it good!! add almond flour slowly to prevent clumps. add baking soda and powder, and allllllll the spices. open the chai tea bag and sift the tea leaves through a fine strainer into the batter. pour into cake pan bake for 25-30min, or until a toothpick comes out clean. when done, cool in fridge or on countertop
icing:
ingredients:
5 oz plain goat cheese (laura chenel makes a really great one!)
2 tbsp labneh (a soft, tangy middle-eastern kefir cheese - you can can sub greek yogurt)
½ - 1 cup powdered sugar (to taste)
directions: whip labneh and goat cheese, then add powdered sugar slowly and whip until smooth.
droplets:
ingredients:
6 blood oranges
⅓ cup wild blueberry jam (bonne maman makes a delicious one and they also are anti-Nazi…..yes, we’re obsessed! you can also sub any fruity jam you like)
half lemon
1 cap-full of rosewater extract (or a lil more if ur feeling it)
1 tsp cornstarch
water
directions:
juice the blood oranges and pour the juice into a saucepan.
add the blueberry jam, squeeze the half-lemon in there, and add the rosewater extract.
in a separate bowl, make a cornstarch slurry by mixing the cornstarch into some water (a few spoonfuls is fine!), then pour the slurry into the saucepan.
bring to a boil, then simmer until syrupy.
remove from heat and pour into bowl to cool.
it’s ready when it’s the texture of thick jam or gooey blood :)
assemble the cake:
remove cake from tin and set on plate or cake stand.pour icing over, enough to cover just the top of the cake (or if ur feelin messy, all over everything)put in fridge for 15 minremove from fridgewith a spoon, decorate cake with jam droplets of different sizes all over the top top with blood orange slices, edible flowers, glitter, and anything else you want to offer to the blood moon, babe!
