Ciambellone Breakfast Pound Cake with Blueberries

Blueberry Ciambellone Breakfast Poundcake is also great for dessert!

Ciambellone Breakfast Pound Cake with Blueberries

Most Italians have a go-to coffee bar for their breakfast: usually an espresso or cappuccino and a cornetto (a croissant). If you get to the bar on the late side you might find you're out of luck on the pastry side.

You’ll almost always find the bar’s homemade ciambellone, which is quite similar to a delicious poundcake. Every bar sells these; some are homemade, and some are purchased, but by and large they are all very tasty. Our local coffee bar, the MepCaffé, is exceptional and prepares great Italian breakfast treats, and also wonderful lunches and afternoon aperitivi. This bar’s Ciambellone is soft and rich, full of flavor with a hint of orange.

Course Breakfast, Dessert

Cuisine Italian

Keyword blueberry, breakfast, ciambellone, dessert, pound cake

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 45

Total Time 1

Servings

Calories 418kcal

Ingredients

3 Eggs
250 grams Sugar
250 grams All-purpose or “00” flour
1 teaspoon Baking powder
150 grams Fresh squeezed orange juice*
1 Zest from one untreated orange
130 grams Peanut oil

Metric - U.S. Customary

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Lightly butter and flour a Ciambellone baking pan. A Ciambellone baking pan is a tubular cake pan.
Beat the eggs and sugar together until they are creamy and fluffy.
Sift the flour and baking powder together and set aside.
Add the flour mixture, orange juice and zest, and oil to the egg mixture in thirds beating after each addition until just incorporated.
Pour the batter into the Ciambellone pan and bake for 45 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean.
Allow the cake to cool completely before transferring the Ciambellone to a serving platter.

Notes

Note that it is not essential to use freshly squeezed orange juice in this cake. The 150 g of orange juice can be replaced with any other juice that you prefer, or with milk. If you replace the orange juice with another citrus juice like lemon or lime you should also use that fruit’s zest instead of orange zest. If you use 150 g of milk instead of juice it's not strictly necessary to include the orange zest, but it does lend a wonderful flavor to the cake and I always include it.

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