China · Home-style
Red Grapefruit Cake
A light, moist cake made in an air fryer, with the slight sharpness of red grapefruit pieces against a soft crumb. Small enough to bake as a single serving.
Air fryer cakes have become a way to avoid heating the whole oven for a single portion. Red grapefruit is used here for its perfume rather than its bitterness, and the flesh is cut small so it stays suspended in the batter. Mixing the dry and wet additions in two stages, rather than all at once, is what keeps the batter free of lumps.
Ingredients
- eggs2 pieces
- flour80 g
- red grapefruit flesh20 g
- oil15 ml
- water80 ml
- sugar15 g
Directions
- 1
Crack two eggs into a foil tray and add 20g of red grapefruit flesh.
- 2
Pour 15ml of oil into the tray and swirl it so it coats the base.
- 3
Add 10g of sugar with 40g of flour and 40ml of water.
- 4
Stir clockwise with a chopstick to a pale yellow paste.
- 5
Add the other 5g of sugar with the remaining 40g of flour and 40ml of water.
- 6
Keep stirring with the chopstick to a pale yellow paste.
- 7
Put the foil tray in the air fryer basket and bake at 180 degrees for fifteen minutes.
- 8
Open the air fryer, carefully take out the tray and turn the cake over with a chopstick or spoon.
- 9
Bake at 180 degrees for another eight minutes.
- 10
Take it out and eat.
Source: HowToCook · WorldBite adaptation · Unlicense source text; bilingual recipe adapted by WorldBite.