Chocolate Orange Marquise

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup fresh orange juice
• 12 ounces dark chocolate, chopped into small pieces
• 1 cup unsalted butter, cubed
• 5 eggs
• 1 orange, zest of
• 3 tablespoons flour
• powdered sugar
• 1 finely pared strips orange zest (to decorate)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350f, grease a 9" cake pan to the depth of 2", line bottom with parchment.
• 2 place 1/2 c of sugar in a saucepan, add orange juice and stir over gentle heat until sugar has dissolved completely.
• 3 remove from heat and stir in the chocolate until melted, then add butter, cube by cube until melted and thouroghly mixed.
• 4 whisk the eggs into the remaining sugar in a large bowl until very thick, add the orange zest.
• 5 using a metal spoon, fold the chocolate mixture into the egg mixture lightly and evenly.
• 6 sift the flour over the top and fold in.
• 7 scrape the mixture into the prepared pan.
• 8 place in a rosting pan, transfer to the oven and pour hot water into the roasting pan to abut halfway up the sides of the cake pan.
• 9 bake for about 1 hour or until the cake is firm to the touch.
• 10 remove the cake from the water bath and place on a wire rack to cool for 10-15 minutes.
• 11 to turn out, invert the cake onto a baking sheet, place a serving plate upside down on top, then turn plate and baking sheet over together so the cake is transferred to the plate.
• 12 dust with confectioners sugar and decorate with stips of pared orange zest.