Chocolate Orange Cake
- 150 g chocolate
- 100 g butter
- 6 eggs
- 150 g ground almonds
- 2 oranges
- 2 tablespoons orange juice
- 100 g sugar
- 3 tablespoons cocoa
- Preheat the oven to 170C/150C Fan/Gas 3.
- Grease a round 23cm-deep cake tin with butter and line the base with baking powder.
- Break the chocolate into squares and put in a bowl with the butter.
- Stand the bowl over a pan of simmering water until the chocolate has melted - make sure the base doesn't touch the water.
- Leave to cool slightly.
- Separate the egg yolks from the whites.
- Stir the ground almonds, orange zest, juice and yolks into the chocolate.
- In a different bowl, whisk the egg whites until stiff.
- Add the sugar 1 tbsp at a time - after each addition, whisk until stiff again.
- Add a quarter to the chocolate mixture and gently fold inches Then fold in the rest of the egg whites.
- Turn the mixture into a cake tin and bake for 35-40 minutes.
- Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then turn out and finish cooling on a wire rack.
- Serve dusted with the cocoa.
chocolate, butter, eggs, ground almonds, oranges, orange juice, sugar, cocoa
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/chocolate-orange-cake-471949 (may not work)