Chocolate and Orange Spice Cake

Name: Chocolate and Orange Spice Cake
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Americas
Ingredients: 2 tbsp orange juice; 1 tbsp ground cinnamon; butter, for the tin; candied orange peel, to decorate; 140 g (5 oz) plain chocolate, broken into pieces; 150 ml (5 fl oz) soured cream; ½ tbsp caster sugar; 75 g (2¾ oz) plain chocolate, grated; 4 large eggs, separated; 175 g (6 oz) blanched almonds; zest of 2 unwaxed oranges, finely grated; 170 g (5¾ oz) caster sugar

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food for Friends

By Levi Roots

Published 2010

About

This is a chocolate cake with knobs on: the orange zest and spices give it a Caribbean twist. It’s brilliant after a luxurious supper with some cream am on the side and strong cups of coffee, or served in the afternoon with an icy cold glass of milk.

Ingredients

175 g (6 oz) blanched almonds
4 large eggs, separated

Americas
Dessert
Caribbean
Vegetarian
Drinks
Gluten-free

Method

Toast the almonds in a dry frying pan over a low heat. Watch them all the time as they go from pale to burnt very quickly. Tip into a bowl to cool, then grind them in a food processor. Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas mark 4.
Beat the egg yolks with