Chocolate Orange Cake

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 150 g chocolate
• 100 g butter
• 6 eggs
• 150 g ground almonds
• 2 oranges
• 2 tablespoons orange juice
• 100 g sugar
• 3 tablespoons cocoa

Recipe

• 1 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.
• 2 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.
• 3 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.
• 4 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.