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Chocolate and Orange Spice Cake

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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

Method

  1. 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.
  2. Beat the egg yolks with

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Fay
from Australia

A very nice cake, special enough for a birthday. Not too heavy and a great hit of flavour from the orange zest and cinnamon. The icing is quite rich but not too sweet. I cut it into at least 12 pieces giving everyone a good-sized slice with a dollop of cream

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