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Every Winter we make orders of ten kilo at the time of organic mandarine oranges from nearby farm here in Barcelona. We eat them, juice them and make delicious desserts with them all Winter long. One of my favorite recipes taken from one of the mom & baby Facebook groups and tweaked a bit to be healthier for my baby daughter Anabela is this mandarine & coconut bundt cake.

My favorite thing about this cake is that is quick to make and it doesn't require me to do a lot of mess in the kitchen and it makes a very refreshing, fruity dessert.

To make recipe healthier I replaced white with brown sugar and butter with coconut oil in the same quantities. If you would like more zesty taste keep peel on 3 mandarine oranges and remove it from two.
I tried to make this cake with whole grain flour and it did not came out that well so I would not recommend trying it. Because I did try to make this cake keeping the peel on all mandarine oranges and it was a bit to zesty especially for a baby, for milder taste I recommend to just keep them peel on one or two.

INGREDIENTS

 5 mandarine oranges
100g brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
100g coconut oil
3 eggs
200g white flour
100g coconut flour
1 baking powder

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 190C/375F.
2. Cook mandarine oranges by cooking them in water (3 peeled and 2 with peel on) until boils (2min aprox). Rinse them and replace the water. Cook them one more time until water boils. Blend them in a blender.
3. In a seperate big bowl mix coconut oil, eggs and brown sugar with hand blender. Add mandarine mix to this mix and combine well. Slowly add coconut flower, white flower and baking powder and mix to combine.
4.  Poor the batter into a greased (I greased it with coconut oil) bundt cake mold (it is supposed to be a sticky mixture) and bake it for 45 minutes on 190C/275F. Let it cool a bit and turn it upside down on a clean cloth.

I hope you try this cake and that your family loves it as much as mine does!
Bon appetite!



Why my girlfriends are making their fourth or fifth kind of Christmas cakes (and making me feel like a true cake baking Grinch), I am packing my chic lit and fashion history books into boxes for my second move this year, drinking my first cup of coffee today,eating a small piece of Petit Palace cake and listening to Bruno Mars.


  My friend Iva is coming (after she makes another cake) to help me with packing. Until then...Let me share with you inspiratations for Christmas celebration my way & the way I celebrate it.


Decorate your Fab Xmass tree...




Spend some good quality time with family & friends....




Try some of the cakes everyone is making ;)






Finally get some sleep...




Read a new book....




Have a stressles New Year...




Decorate my new apartment...






This is my wish for you: peace of mind, prosperity through the year, happiness that multiplies, health for you and yours, fun around every corner, energy to chase your dreams, joy to fill your holidays!


D.M. Dellinger



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