Chocolate orange marquise

Name: Chocolate orange marquise
Ingredients: finely grated rind of 1 orange; 5 eggs; 350 g/12 oz plain (semisweet) chocolate, broken into pieces; 60 ml/4 tbsp freshly squeezed orange juice; 200 g/7 oz/1 cup caster (superfine) sugar; 225 g/8 oz/1 cup unsalted butter, diced, at room temperature, plus extra for greasing; 45 ml/3 tbsp plain (all-purpose) flour; icing (confectioners’) sugar, to decorate; finely pared strips of orange rind, to decorate

Preparation info

Serves
6–8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cakes

By Ann Nicol

Published 2014

About

This fabulous cake has very little flour, but is rich with butter, eggs and chocolate, and flavoured with orange rind and juice. Enjoy this special cake with coffee, or with cream as a dessert. Store chilled in an airtight container for up to three days.

Ingredients

225 g/8 oz/1 cup unsalted butter, diced, at room temperature, plus extra for greasing

Dessert
Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Grease and line a 23cm/9in round deep cake tin (pan) with baking parchment.
Put 115g/4oz/generous ½ cup of the caster sugar in a heavy pan with the fresh orange juice. Place over a low heat until all the sugar has