Lime Cake

I made a clementine cake in January 2009 and it happened to be on inauguration day, so I called it a celebration cake. I was celebrating George W. Bush no longer being the president of the United States. The clementine version is delicious, and unexpected. You don't expect a cake that is made without butter or flour to be good, but this one is fantastic. I made a recipe that was not from Nigella, but after I learned that Nigella is famous for her clementine cake.

I bought ground almonds in January of this year with the intent of making the clementine cake again, but I never got around to it. I wanted to use the almonds, so I decided to make a summery version of the same cake. 

 

Limes are my favorite citrus fruit these days, so I found some unwaxed limes and went for it. The result is delicious...it's moist and limey. I reduced the amount of sugar very slightly from what the recipe calls for, and found it a little bit tart, so I quickly made a simple syrup with the water that the limes boiled in, poked the finished cake all over and poured on the simple syrup. That made the cake shiny, and less tart. The result is not overly sweet, so much so, that if I were to serve this to guests, I would serve ice cream with the cake. Maybe raspberry ice cream. Or vanilla.

I made simple syrup with most of the water that the limes boiled in. I will perhaps make a few cocktails with it this weekend.