Dark Chocolate Mandarin Cake
Recipe: #30545
October 07, 2018
Categories: Desserts, Cakes, Snacks, Eggs, Mandarin Orange, Baby Shower, Birthday, Fathers Day, Game/Sports Day, Mothers Day, Picnic, Potluck, Oven Bake, Chocolate, more
"From one of our national supermarkets and their free monthly magazine June 2018."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (176.8 g)
- Calories 414.1
- Total Fat - 16.6 g
- Saturated Fat - 5.9 g
- Cholesterol - 339.7 mg
- Sodium - 136.9 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 53.3 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.6 g
- Sugars - 45.5 g
- Protein - 13.9 g
- Calcium - 91 mg
- Iron - 2.8 mg
- Vitamin C - 8.5 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Place whole mandarins in a saucepan and cover with cold water and bring to a boil over high heat and then drain and repeat (this helps reduce the bitterness of mandarin peel).
Step 2
Return mandarins to pan (after second draining in step 1) and cover with water and bring to a boil and then reduce heat to medium and simmer for 30 minutes or until very tender and drain and set aside to cool
Step 3
Preheat oven to 180C and grease and line the base and side of a 22cm (base measurement) springform pan.
Step 4
Coarsely chop the mandarins and discard any seeds and place in a food processor and process until smooth.
Step 5
Use an electric mixer to whisk eggs and sugar in a bowl for 8 minutes or until mixture doubles in size and then add mandarin puree, almond meal and flour and gently fold to combine.
Step 6
Fold the chocolate un combined and pour into prepared pan and bake for 50 to 60 minutes or until a skewer inserted in centre comes out clean and set aside in pan to cool completely.
Step 7
Meanwhile to make the mandarin compote, segment half the mandarins and cut remaining mandarins crossways into 3 slices.
Step 8
Place sugar, mandarin juice, cinnamon stick and 1/2 cup (125ml) water in a saucepan over low heat and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes or until sugar dissolves and then increase heat to high and bring to the boil, and cook, WITHOUT stirring, for 3 minutes or until syrup thickens slightly and add the mandarin zest and mandarin segments and slices and set aside to slightly.
Step 9
Place cake on a serving platter and top with mandarin and pour over the syrup.
Tips
No special items needed.