Chocolate and Orange Polenta Cake

Name: Chocolate and Orange Polenta Cake
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 2 h 15 min
Yield: Serves 8–10
Ingredients: 100 g (3½ oz) dark chocolate; 1 heaped teaspoon baking powder; 125 g (4½ oz) demerara sugar; 50 g (1¾ oz/¼ cup) demerara sugar; Grated zest of 1 orange; 50 g (1¾ oz) instant polenta; 3 tablespoons freshly squeezed orange juice (without pulp); 100 g (3½ oz) lightly salted butter; 100 g (3½ oz) unsalted butter; 4 eggs; 200 g (7 oz) very good quality dark chocolate; Candied oranges or clementines; 75 g (2½ oz) unsalted butter

Preparation info

Serves
8–10

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
2 hr 30

Appears in

100 Desserts to Die For

By Trish Deseine

Published 2016

About

This rich and dense cake, with its chocolate ganache and orange icing is quite simply a ‘killer’. Forgive me if there is a bit more washing up than usual, but this rather sophisticated cake is worth the trouble.

Ingredients

For the cake:

200 g (7 oz) very good quality dark chocolate
100 g (

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

MAKE THE CAKE. Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F/Gas 4). Butter and flour a round cake tin, 20 cm (8 inch