Orange Flourless Chocolate Cake For The Reagan Family
Recipe: #25617
February 09, 2017
Categories: Desserts, Cakes, Baby Shower, Birthday, Christmas, Cinco de Mayo, Easter, Fathers Day, Mothers Day, Passover, Picnic, Potluck Thanksgiving, Oven Bake, Gluten-Free, Kosher, Vegetarian, Chocolate, more
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Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (397.6 g)
- Calories 758.4
- Total Fat - 45.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 21.3 g
- Cholesterol - 819.9 mg
- Sodium - 161.8 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 77.5 g
- Dietary Fiber - 8.1 g
- Sugars - 66.4 g
- Protein - 17.5 g
- Calcium - 234.9 mg
- Iron - 3.8 mg
- Vitamin C - 93.8 mg
- Thiamin - 0.4 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C).
Step 2
Butter and flour a 10-inch (25-cm) round cake pan.
Step 3
Line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper, then butter and flour the parchment paper.
Step 4
Melt the chocolate over a double boiler.
Step 5
Stir the butter into the chocolate to melt, and stir until smooth.
Step 6
Remove from the double boiler and whisk the sugar and orange zest into the chocolate mixture.
Step 7
Add the eggs and egg yolks and whisk well.
Step 8
Sift the cocoa powder over the chocolate mixture and whisk the batter until totally smooth.
Step 9
Pour the batter into the pan and bake for approximately 35 to 40 minutes, or until the top has formed a good crust.
Step 10
Cool the cake in the pan on a rack for 10 minutes.
Step 11
Invert the cake onto a serving platter.
Step 12
Dust with confectioners' sugar and serve with candied orange peel and vanilla ice cream.
Tips
- Double boiler