Blood Orange Mimosa Cake & Giveaway
I am VERY excited about this blood orange mimosa cake. It’s the bomb.com and it is from one of my favorite cookbooks last year, Grandbaby Cakes: Modern Recipes, Vintage Charm, Soulful Memories. If you remember this 7UP Pound Cake last fall, then you know that a) i heart Jocelyn’s book and b) that she knows her way around cake, especially pound cakes and c) that the recipes are just amazing for creating new memories with family.
For all these reasons, I decided to dive back into her numerous mouth-watering recipes during the holiday season and whipped up this Blood Orange Mimosa Cake for New Year’s. I brought it to my sister-in-law’s that evening and it was a hit. Not a single piece was left and everyone enjoyed it. Her twist on the brunch favorite brings together bold flavors. Using sweet blood oranges and pink champagne, this cake is a statement cake. The bubbly makes it a celebration cake (and a light and airy cake) but the lovely pink glaze adds a touch of playfulness that would be a Valentine’s Day spectacular.
There’s something about Jocelyn’s recipes that always create fond memories. So if you haven’t grabbed a copy yet of Grandbaby Cakes, the book, please RUN and add this book to your book shelf. Well, it might spend more time on your kitchen counter but that’s okay.
Because I loved it so much, I grabbed an extra copy to give away to you. Jocelyn was kind enough to sign it so ONE lucky reader will win a signed copy of Grandbaby Cakes. To enter for a chance to win this lovely family cookbook, answer the question below in the comments.
“What is your favorite family recipe? And why is it your favorite?”
GIVEAWAY CLOSED!
Blood Orange Mimosa Cake
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2 ¾ cups granulated sugar
- 5 large eggs, room temperature
- 3 cups sifted cake flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup pink Moscato or Champagne
- 3 tablespoons orange zest
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
Simple Syrup
- ½ cup pink Moscato or Champagne
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup fresh blood-orange juice
Orange Glaze
- 1 ½ cups confectioner’s sugar
- 3 tablespoons fresh blood-orange juice
Instructions
For the Cake:
- Heat oven to 315 degrees F. Spray a 10-cup bundt pan with nonstick baking spray.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine the sugar with orange zest. Using your fingers, rub the zest into the sugar until fragrant.
- Add the butter and salt to the bowl and cream together with sugar. Beat on medium-high for 7 minutes, until butter is pale yellow and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, combining well after each addition and scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
- Reduce speed to low and slowly add the flour in two batches, mixing each time until just combined. Do not overmix.
- Pour the Moscato and mix until just combined.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 70-80 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Let the cake cool in the pan for at least 10 minutes before inverting onto a serving plate. Let cool to room temperature.
For simple syrup:
- In a small pot set over medium heat, combine all the ingredients and cook over medium-high heat. Reduce mixture by about a third and thickened, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool completely
For Glaze:
- In a small bowl, whisk together all the ingredients until it’s pourable.
- To assemble cake, poke holes all over the cooled cake with a skewer or fork. Pour the simple syrup over the cake so it's absorbed. Repeat again (it's a lot of syrup and you don't have to use it all but the cake is delicious with it.)
- Finally drizzle the glaze over the cake and let it set for 10 mins.
Notes
Recipe from Grandbaby Cakes and published with permission
Disclosure: Affiliate links above.
I love my grandmas carrotcake. It tastes so good and is quite easy to bake 🙂
This cake looks so delicious!! One of our families favorite recipe is sour cream pound cake topped with berries!
My grandmother’s Chocolate Fudge.
Looooove Jocelyn!!! My fave family recipe is probably the Blogna’s scrippelle–they’re so unique and just…omigosh DELICIOUS! We eat them once or twice a year for holidays and they’ve always been my favorite
Never heard of them but going to search 🙂
Wow!!! I am obsessed with this! What an amazing flavor combo!
That cake looks perfect for breakfast, because that’s how we roll at Casa De Hunter! One of my favorite family recipes is my great grandmother’s meat & rice pies. Its a hearty & savory concoction rolled into biscuit dough and capable of changing lives!
You know it will be perfect for breakfast.
I LOVE Jocelyn’s cookbook! It’s so great. This cake looks so good, so light and fluffy – I really need to make it!
I love these blueberry oat bars that my mother makes. I used to think they were too “healthy” as a kid but as an adult, they’re easy to make and fuel me during the day!
Great fuel!
This cake sounds amazing! One of my favorite recipes is my mom’s apple pie. It’s the only apple pie I ever make and I hope I can keep the handwritten copy in good condition so one day my own daughter (or son) can continue the tradition.
Apple pie is a classic!! Hope you pass the recipe on.
Love the idea of the pink Moscato in the simple syrup – this is stunning!
I love my grandma’s butterscotch cake. It’s actually her mother’s recipe, but she made it her own. It has a broiled frosting that makes it taste like caramel or butterscotch. It is a family tradition & the one cake my grandma always wants for her birthday.
That sounds so yummy Laurim. Wish I had that recipe!
I love butterscotch and this cake sounds amazing!
My fav recipe is cholent bc its so homey
It sounds so comforting!
Her cookbook sounds amazing, and that cake looks scrumptious 🙂
I don’t think I have a favorite family recipe. I love to try new things!
My favorite family recipe is rice pudding. My grandmother made it for us every time we would go to visit. Such happy memories.
Happy memories are the best!
I so love Jocelyn’s book! This cake definitely caught my eye and I can’t wait to try it!
My favorite family recipe is stuffed cabbage, from my Polish Mother-in-law. I like it because it’s really yummy and not something you see everyday on the menu.
Yes, it sounds unique!
My family favourite would have to be fried chicken nuggets because it’s my grandma’s secret recipe.
Ooooo that sounds good!
This bundt cake is gorgeous! Looks super fluffy!
So beautiful Zainab! I’m in blood orange heaven!
This cake is gorgeous, Z! You did such a great job! I love Jocelyn’s book and wanted to try the cinnamon roll and german chocolate bundt cake and now I can’t wait to try this one too 🙂
I need to try the german chocolate cake too!
I just made a blood orange recipe yesterday! Great minds think alike! This pound cake looks fabulous. There are so many recipes from Jocelyn’s book that I want to make!
Oh I love blood oranges!!
What an absolutely beautiful cake!
My favorite family recipe is my grandfather’s Honey Butter Southern Cornbread! He would be in the kitchen and I would help him bake this cornbread for dinner and for our weekly dinners! He would make two batches of cornbread for every birthday celebration and it always brought a smile on his face when everyone dove in and took a bite. It was everything you could hope for in cornbread, it was sweet with a hint of salt and had butter and honey in every nook and cranny and it melt in your mouth. It always went perfect with homemade ice tea in the summer and hot chocolate in the winter and spiced apple cider in the fall. It is a true family treasure and we cherish it every day and every year. It is something beautiful, and when it comes out the oven, it sparkles like a gem! I love my grandfather and his honey butter cornbread, it will always be an extraordinary family dish and we love it with all our hearts! This is why it is my favorite recipe.
Thank you, and I hope you have a wonderful day!
Ashley his cornbread sounds amazing! It’s great when a recipe is tied to great memories like this! Hope you guys can learn how to make his wonderful recipe and pass it down the generations.
Oh this cake is just so so pretty!!! And how fun with the mimosa flavor! I love that!
Z, I still have to make this cake from J’s book . . this is a work of art! So beautiful and love the sweet blood oranges and pink champagne. . what a great idea to make this for V-Day!
I can’t get over this cake. I love the idea of a blood orange mimosa and pound cake rolled into one. And the color of the glaze is just gorgeous. I don’t have Jocelyn’s book yet, but I am dying to get my hands on it!
It’s a great book!
My family loves my chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting. And my Chicken & dumplings.
My FIL makes the best chicken dumplings. I always ask for them.
I love blood oranges – & in cake form?!? I bet this is amazing!
PS: my favorite family recipe is Sweet Potato casserole because it’s a holiday favorite passed on by my grandmother!
Wow!! the cake looks absolutely amazing. I have never tried a blood orange cake, bookmarking this recipe!!
Being from India, I have had a life long love affair with spices and one of my favorite family recipes is my mom’s spicy coconut curry with hot steamed rice… Being far away from home makes all those food memories all the more fragrant!!
I can only imagine how wonderful that will smell! Hope you can recreate it here so you have memories of home 🙂
Our favorite recipe is a good old fashioned Pot Roast dinner. My husband’s favorite, easy and one pot.
This cake looks so good.
Sounds like the perfect dinner!
Has to be carrot cake, because everyone asks for it.
My favorite has to be my grandmother’s cinnamon roll recipe. It is made for every holiday breakfast and such a special treat. Eating one of those rolls brings back such wonderful memories.
Oh what a great tradition!
That looks absolutely delicious. Blood oranges happen to be my favorite! My favorite recipe is my Nana’s homemade cornbread.. the recipe screams her name and cornbread is her favorite so I will always treasure that in her cast iron skillet!
Sounds wonderful!
Chicken Noodle Soup. My dad made the best.
I love chicken noodle soup! Thanks for entering Dana!
My favorite family recipe is the fudge my father would make up every great once in awhile. It was old fashioned fudge, made with a candy thermometer, and tastes like the essence of chocolate. It always came out perfectly for my dad, but when I make it, I blow it half the time, because timing is of the essence, that is, pouring it at just the right moment before it candies. When it comes out right, it is incredible. Love the blood orange cake, gotta make!
Oh that sounds wonderful. Fudge is a delicate business all by itself.
Pie of all kinds, but the top few are apple, pecan, peanut butter, coconut cream, cherry, rhubarb, peach… My grandma made pie for dessert for every occasion, and it was my Dad’s favorite dessert. Now my four sons and husband all LOVE pie, too.
I am a sucker for all kinds of pie 🙂
This would absolutely become a family favorite recipe; I can’t wait to try my hand at making this, especially for a nice summer day or celebration! Thanks for the chance. I would have to say my favorite family recipe to make is a good, southern breakfast consisting of French toast, grits, eggs & bacon.
Sarah this will be perfect for summer indeed. I hope you try it soon!
I need to up my cake game and so need this cookbook in my life. Love the cake Z.
Hahha! 🙂
A pound cake was always a staple growing up. With a couple of quick changes, it could be chocolate, lemon or any flavor you wanted.
Would you be able to bake two of these in the oven at once?
I would not recommend it as it will slow down the baking. If you do decide to, be sure to check the cakes frequently and rotate. Your baking time will be increased of course.
I love my family’s peach jam bread!! As a dessert blogger, there are just too many to choose 🙂
Right? Too little time to make them all 🙂
This is exactly what I’ve been searching for! Well sort of… I am a novice baker, however, I have volunteered to bring the cake to a baby shower brunch. As we are all fans of a great mimosa, I began looking at recipes for a champagne cake. Thankfully I eventually found this gorgeous recipe The problem is that it is not the season for blood oranges. Could someone please advise on appropriate substitutions? I read somewhere that i could possibly use navel oranges and maybe add some raspberries to boost the flavor. This sounds great but I am unsure of proportions, etc.. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Hi Gaye, you can use just regular oranges and if you like the color, use a few drops of red food coloring.
I have several family favorites! Just coming off the Christmas season, I’d have to say several of our cookie recipes – oatmeal frostbite cookies with oatmeal, golden raisins and orange and dipped (or drizzled) with white chocolate. My 17yo son’s favorite, and probably one of our more “healthy” cookie recipes.
For my mom’s 80th birthday (Halloween), I’d ❤️ To compile all her cookie recipes in one “book” for her and to pass on copies to my kids.
Oh that would be so so great! Family recipes are the best to pass down. Hope you create that cookie recipe book for your mom 🙂
My favorite memory of holiday dessert is my mom’s homemade red velvet cake. It doesn’t taste like any red velvet cakes in bakeries. It melts in your mouth! But I also have most of my friends begging for my rum cake. So I really would love to get Grandbaby Cakes cookbook.
Yes, Carla! She has incredible recipes!
I love Jocelyn, too! My favorite family recipe is my grandmother’s pineapple diamonds. It’s a delicious pastry top and bottom with a deliciously sweet pineapple filling. Aside from how delicious they are, it’s my favorite family recipe because they were present every single Christmas!! They’re so unique. It just isn’t Christmas without them.
Oh, that sounds so amazing!!!