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Soft chocolate-orange cake

Name: Soft chocolate-orange cake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 2 h 45 min
Total time: 3 h 5 min
Yield: 4 people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 orange; 6 eggs; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 200 g ground almonds; 250 g caster sugar; 50 g powdered cocoa

If you like the combination of chocolate and citrus fruit, you'll love this very simple, very moist cake, with its deliciously pronounced chocolate and orange flavors.

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Duration

3 hours 5 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: December 1^st 2024

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For 4 people, you will need:

1 1 orange
2 6 eggs
3 1 teaspoon baking powder
4 200 g ground almonds
5 250 g caster sugar
6 50 g powdered cocoa
Total weight: 1,105 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation

20 min.

Cooking

2 hours 45 min.

All in all

3 hours 5 min.

Preparation 20 min.

Cooking 2 hours 45 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - ⌛ 2 min.

The orange

Place 1 orange in a small pan of cold water over low heat.

You'll need around 300g of oranges, either a large one or 2 small ones (as in the photo), organic quality imperative, or else brush them very carefully.

Stage 2 - ⌛ 2 hours

Bring the water to a simmer, cover and leave the orange to cook gently for 2 hours.

Stage 3 - ⌛ 2 min.

When the orange has become very soft, drain and leave to cool.

Stage 4 - ⌛ 1 min.

Trim and discard ends.

Stage 5 - ⌛ 2 min.

Cut into quarters and cut in half lengthwise.

Stage 6 - ⌛ 3 min.

Pour into a blender and blend for a few seconds.

Stage 7 - ⌛ 5 min.

The paste

Add 6 eggs, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 200 g ground almonds, 250 g caster sugar, 50 g powdered cocoa to the mixer and blend until smooth.

Preheat oven to 180°C (360°F).

Stage 8 - ⌛ 3 min.

Baking

In a 22 cm (8.5-inch) diameter springform tin, place a disk of baking paper in the bottom to facilitate unmolding.

Stage 9 - ⌛ 2 min.

Pour the mixture into the mould.

Stage 10 - ⌛ 45 min.

Bake for about 45 minutes, checking at the end.

Stage 11

Leave to cool, then turn out onto a plate.

Decorate with powdered sugar, orange zest orcandied grapefruit peel.

Remarks

You can use other citrus fruits in this recipe: grapefruit, clementine, lemon...

If your oranges aren't quite tender after cooking, because they weren't quite ripe for example, start by pouring the eggs into the blender before adding the oranges and the rest, which will be easier to blend.

Oranges can be cooked the day before, or even several days before, and stored in the fridge.

Keeping: 2 or 3 days in the fridge, protected by cling film.

Source: After Nigella Lawson

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Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	8 g RDI=12 %	30 g RDI=11 %	13 g RDI=19 %	276 kcal RDI=14 %	1,159 kJ RDI=14 %
Per person	22 g RDI=34 %	83 g RDI=32 %	38 g RDI=52 %	764 kcal RDI=38 %	3,201 kJ RDI=38 %
Whole recipe	88 g RDI=136 %	334 g RDI=126 %	152 g RDI=208 %	3,058 kcal RDI=153 %	12,804 kJ RDI=153 %