Recipe - Pine Nut And Anise Cake With Blood Orange Compote

2 cup Unbleached allpurpose flour
1 teaspoon Baking powder
Three fourths teaspoon Baking soda
1/8 teaspoon Sea salt
Three fourths cup Pure maple syrup
1 cup Soy milk
One half cup Canola oil
2 One half ounce Silken tofu
1 tablespoon Anise extract
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
One half teaspoon Fresh lemon juice
One half cup Pine nuts; toasted
8 Blood oranges
One half cup Unrefined sugar or Sucanat
1 tablespoon Arrowroot; dissolved in
Three fourths cup Cold water

CAKE: Preheat the oven to 350F degrees. Lightly oil an 8" round springform
pan. In a large bowl, sift the flour, baking powder and baking soda. Add
the salt and stir until well combined. In a blender, combine the maple
syrup, soy milk, oil, tofu, anise and vanilla extracts, and lemon juice.
Puree until smooth. Pour the wet mixture into the dry mixture, and mix
well. Fold in the pine nuts. Pour into the prepared pan and bake for 5565
minutes, or until the cake is golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the
center comes out clean. Let the cake cool completely in the pan on a rack,
then remove it from the pan.

COMPOTE: Juice 4 of the oranges. Peel the remaining 4 oranges and cut them
into segments. In a small saucepan, combine the orange juice and sugar.
Bring the mixture to a simmer and stir in the arrowroot mixture. Stir until
the sauce becomes translucent. Remove from heat and let cool. Stir in the
orange segments.

TO SERVE, cut the cake into 10 slices. Heat the orange compote until warm.
For each serving, pool orange compote in the center of a plate, place a
slice of cake on top of the compote.

*INFO* Recipe by Sascha Weiss. Recipe from The Millennium Cookbook by Eric
Tucker & John Westerdahl, M.P.H., R.D., C.N.S.; Dessert Recipes (Ten Speed
1998) ISBN 0898158990. MILLENNIUM RESTAURANT is located in the Abagail
Hotel at 246 McAllister Street, San Francisco, California.

Typed by Melissa's Specialty Foods: Eric Tucker of Millennium URL:
www.melissas.com/gstchefs/1298chef.htm Sent to Eatlf mailing list 12/4/98
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Recipe by: Millennium Cookbook by Eric Tucker

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