Polenta And Orange Upside-Down Cake
- Vegetable oil for greasing pan
- 13 cup sugar
- 3 cups blueberries
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- Finely grated zest of 1 large orange
- 23 cup orange juice
- 23 cup olive oil (not extra virgin) or sunflower oil
- 1/2 cup instant polenta
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease and line base and sides of a 9-inch-square cake pan with baking parchment.
- Sprinkle 1/3 cup sugar over base of pan, and cover evenly with blueberries.
- In a mixing bowl, combine eggs, 1 cup sugar and orange zest.
- Whisk until pale and thick.
- Add orange juice and oil, and whisk until blended.
- Add polenta, flour, baking powder and salt, and fold together until batter is smooth.
- Pour into prepared pan.
- Bake until a cake tester inserted into center of cake comes out clean, about 45 minutes.
- (Cake will be golden brown and springy to the touch.)
- Cool cake on a rack for about 5 minutes.
- Carefully invert cake onto a serving plate, and slowly peel off parchment paper.
- Serve warm.
vegetable oil, sugar, blueberries, eggs, sugar, orange, orange juice, olive oil, instant polenta, flour, baking powder, salt
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/271 (may not work)