Hello friends! Today we're going to show you how to make a classic french dessert: Weekend Cake, aka Travel Cake or French pound cake.(cake week-end au pamplemousse, Gâteau de Voyage, pound cake)

Weekend Cake, or even Travel Cake, what a lovely name for such a simple dessert. Both of them are translated from french “Cake Week-end” and “Gâteau de Voyage”, it is similar to pound cake, or you can call it French pound cake. But there are still some differences. Pound cake is traditionally made with a pound of flour, butter, eggs, and sugar, and is to use softened butter, but french weekend cake is to use melted butter.

Weekend cake is actually a plain looking cake, made in a simple way, and the cake structure is firmer and less fragile, so it's ideal for a 3-4 days trip, or a weekend friend gathering dessert. This recipe is from Le Cordon Bleu, but we’ve made some adjustments. Hope you like this video. :-) Enjoy.

This rich, double-glazed pound cake is made in the classic French style. In fact, the recipe came from the Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris.

This is an #ASMR ver, you can check out the other ver that with BGM and Voices in Chinese if you like:
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How to make Le Grapefruit Weekend Cake Recipe
French pound cake Recipe

☞ Pan size: 14x7cm

✎ Ingredients
☞ For the cake
egg 2
grapefruit 1
granulated sugar 80g
cake flour 85g
a pinch of baking powder
unsalted butter 80g, melted
** For grease a pan: 10g of melted butter, 20g of flour

☞ For the apricot glaze
nappage abricot 25g
water 25g

☞ For the grapefruit syrup
Grapefruit juice 30g
powdered sugar 18g

✎ Instructions
1. Brush the melted butter evenly on the base and edges of a pan. Dust the inside the pan with flour, then tip out and discard any excess flour.
2. Add hot water in a medium bowl, place the butter pieces in a stainless steel bowl, put the bowl in the hot water and cover a cloth, set aside and keep warm.
3. Add 80g sugar in a bowl, zest an half of grapefruit into it. Then rub the grapefruit zest and sugar together with your fingers until fragrant and combined.
4. In a large mixing bowl, add two eggs and grapefruit sugar, whisk them together for 7~8 minutes until the egg mixture is pale and fluffy. If you use hand electric mixer, then beat on medium speed for 2 minutes, then change to low speed for 1 minute.
5. Sift the flour and baking powder into the egg mixture, and gently fold until you have a smooth batter.
6. Pour the melted butter into the bowl, mix until fully incorporated and the texture is a little bit glossy.
7. Fill three-quarters full with batter. Tap the pan 1 or 2 times to cause the air bubbles to rise to the surface.
8. Pour melted butter in a small tray, and dip the melted butter with scraper, then gently touch the center of the batter to create a butter line.
9. Preheat the oven to 170°C and bake for 30~35 minutes. Remove the cake from the pan and place it onto a cooling rack and leave to cool.
10. Use a small pan to melt the apricot and water over low heat. Brush the top with warm apricot glaze and leave for minutes while making grapefruit syrup.
11. For the grapefruit syrup, mix together the grapefruit juice and icing sugar. Brush the syrup over the side of the cake, then refrigerate for 1-2 hours.

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