Chocolate Orange Cake

If chocolate orange is irresistible then this cake will be the new favorite around the block. Orange cream filled layers with a dark chocolate on top. Yumm!

As I recently have some time, I had been looking on the internet yesterday. Attempting to find fresh, intriguing ideas, inspirational recipes that I have never used before, to delight my family with. Hunting for quite some time yet couldn’t find lots of interesting stuff. Right before I wanted to give up on it, I came upon this delightful and simple treat by chance. The dessert looked so fabulous on its image, it called for urgent actions.

It absolutely was not so difficult to imagine just how it is made, how it tastes and how much boyfriend will probably like it. Mind you, it is very simple to impress him in terms of desserts. Yes, I’m a blessed one. Or possibly he is.Anyways, I got into the blog: Suncakemom and simply followed the step-by-step instuctions that had been coupled with great snap shots of the task. It really makes life less difficult. I can suppose it is a bit of a effort to take snap shots in the midst of cooking in the kitchen as you ordinarily have gross hands so I sincerely appreciate the commitment she devote for making this post .

With that in mind I’m encouraged presenting my own recipe similarly. Many thanks the concept.

I was tweaking the main recipe create it for the taste of my family. I must say it was an awesome success. They enjoyed the flavour, the overall look and loved getting a delicacy like this in the midst of a lively week. They quite simply wanted lots more, more and more. Hence next time I am not going to make the same mistake. I’m likely to multiply the quantity .

Chocolate orange cake recipe first appeared on Suncakemom.

How to make Chocolate orange cake:

Base:

Preheat oven to 350°F / 180°C.

Separate egg whites from the yolks one by one. Put them in two different medium sized bowls to beat them.Separate-egg-white-from-yolk-gp-SunCakeMom

Measure flour. Put the unsweetened cocoa powder and the baking powder into the same measuring bowl and mix dry ingredients well.

Beat the egg whites on high speed until hard peaks form. At this stage, the tips of the egg whites will curl when the beaters are lifted. Peaks have to be stiff.Beat-egg-whites-gp-SunCakeMom

Beat yolk and sweetener of choice until it becomes light yellow. Beat-egg-yolk-gp-SunCakeMom

Add dry ingredients bit by bit alternating it with the orange juice.

Fold the egg whites into flour yolk mixture. Use a wooden spoon or a spatula to cut vertically through the mixture. Move it around the bottom of the bowl bring it back up. Carrying some of the mixture from the bottom up to the surface.

Repeat it smoothly until ingredients are evenly combined.

Line a cake tray by using baking sheets or cover it with some butter and flour.

Spread the batter evenly into the prepared tray and put it into the 350°F / 180°C preheated oven for about 30 minutes or until the toothpick comes out clean.Orange-chocolate-cake-Process-1-SunCakeMom

Filling:

Get the oranges and wash them well.

Dice them up and put the pieces into a pot to cook.

Pour water into the pot as well.

Put saucepan in the cooktop and bring it to boil.

Turn heat to low then cook oranges for half to one hour with the lid on.

Take it of the heat and let it cool down then puree it with a blender.Orange-chocolate-cake-Process-4-SunCakeMom

Continue with the other part of the cream: pour the milk and heavy cream in a pot on medium heat warm it up until it starts to bubble. Mind to stir it fairly often to avoid burning down.

Whilst the milk-cream reaching the boiling temperature; separate eggs and put away the whites for Floating islands or freeze it.

In a medium bowl, whisk the egg yolks for about a minute until light yellow and increased in volume.Beat-egg-yolk-gp-SunCakeMom

Whisk in the cornstarch, vanilla extract, agave syrup and gradually about ½ cup of the hot milk-cream. The goal is to raise the temperature of the yolks so it won’t get curdled when added into the hot mixture.

Slowly pour all of the egg yolk mixture into the scalding milk-cream while stirring vigorously until the mixture seems completely liquified.

Keep warm and continuously stir until the custard thickens.Orange-chocolate-cake-Process-3-SunCakeMom

Mix it with the orange puree evenly.Orange-chocolate-cake-Process-7-SunCakeMom

Chocolate glaze:

Melt the chocolate, cocoa and the piece of butter.Sacher-torte-recipe-process-21-SunCakeMom

Pour heavy cream into the saucepan with the chocolate bits.

Stir occasionally until melted chocolate is completely incorporated with the butter and whipped cream.

If cake base cooled down, cut it into four equal parts horizontally. Check out the cheap cake slicers in our Kitchen Bazaar at the Reviews. Pro tip: Use the top of the cake for Domino cake.Orange-chocolate-cake-Process-6-SunCakeMom

Divide the orange cream into three parts.

Spread the first part on the bottom layer of the cake then put the second layer on top.Orange-chocolate-cake-Process-8-SunCakeMom

Spread the second part of the cream on the second layer and the third layer on top.Orange-chocolate-cake-Process-9-SunCakeMom

Finish the same with the third part of the cream and the top layer of the cake.Orange-chocolate-cake-Process-11-SunCakeMom

Pour chocolate icing on top of the cake.Orange-chocolate-cake-Process-12-SunCakeMom

Decorate it with candied orange peel or just a simply fry the orange peels in oil for 5-10 minutes until get a slightly brownish color.

Put cake in the fridge for a couple of hours before cutting it up and serving it.