Ingredients
Scale
For the Cake:
- Nonstick spray, for coating the pan
- 2½ cups sugar
- 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, softened
- Zest of 2 blood oranges
- 6 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons canola or grapeseed oil (or any other neutral oil)
- Juice of 1 blood orange (roughly ¼ cup)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste or extract
- 2½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon fine salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup plain Greek yogurt (I use 2%)
For the Glaze:
- 2 tablespoons plain Greek yogurt
- 2 tablespoons blood orange juice
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- Zest of 1 blood orange
Optional Garnishes:
- Blood orange slices
- Additional powdered sugar, for dusting
- Fresh mint sprigs
Instructions
For the Cake:
- Preheat the oven to 325°F and generously coat a 12-cup bundt pan with nonstick spray. Sprinkle in 1 tablespoon of flour and turn the pan to lightly and completely coat in the flour. Discard any excess flour.
- To the bowl of your stand mixer, add the sugar and blood orange zest. Run the mixer for a few minutes to combine so the orange flavor permeates the sugar (you’ll be able to smell it).
- Add the butter and beat to combine until the mixture is fluffy and smooth.
- Add in the eggs, one at a time, until they are just incorporated. Beat in the blood orange juice, oil, and vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder.
- Add roughly ⅓ of the dry mixture to the wet ingredients and beat until just combined.
- Add roughly ½ of the yogurt and beat until just combined. Repeat with the remaining flour and yogurt, ending with the last ⅓ of the flour mixture. Mix on low after every addition until everything is just combined.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth out the top. Bake for 50-60 minutes, or until a tester inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean and the outside of the cake is golden brown.
- Cool the cake in the pan for one hour and then transfer it to a rack set over a baking pan to continue cooling.
For the Glaze:
- Once the cake is completely cooled, make the glaze by whisking together the yogurt, blood orange juice, and powdered sugar. Start with ¾ cup of the sugar and add more, as needed, to achieve a drizzling consistency for the glaze.
- Stir in the blood orange zest.
- Drizzle or pour the glaze over the top of the cake, using as much or as little as you like.
- If desired, garnish the cake with blood orange slices, a dusting of powdered sugar, and mint sprigs. Slice and serve!