Chocolate Orange Cake Recipe

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Chocolate Orange Cake
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Ingredients
23
Count
Nutrition
391
Calories
Total time
100
Minutes
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Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. For Chocolate Ganache:
  2. In a large saucepan bring cream to the beginning of a boil. Remove from cook top. Add chocolate (in chunks). Stir until completely combined. Cool to room temperature before filling cakes. Set aside to cool.
  3. For Chocolate Cake:
  4. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Butter and flour cake pans of choice. Melt chocolate and set aside to cool to room temperature. Beat butter and brown sugar until fluffy (about 4 minutes on medium). Add eggs and vanilla and continue to beat until thick and creamy (about 6 minutes on medium). Add chocolate on low and mix until combined. Wisk dry ingredients together. Add 1/3 dry ingredients alternately with 1/3 sour cream beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Add boiling water and mix only for 30 seconds, scrape bowl and mix the rest by hand. Immediately pour into pans 2/3 full. Bake until tester comes out clean in center of cake, about 30 minutes for 9-inch round, more or less for other size cake pans. Cool for 1/2 hour before removing cakes from pans. Wrap in plastic wrap and cool in the refrigerator. When totally cold, unwrap cakes and fill with chocolate ganache.
  5. For Orange Cake:
  6. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Butter and flour cake pans of choice With a zester, zest the orange part of the peel of a fresh orange but do not zest the white section of the peel. Measure 4 tablespoons. Combine yolks, 11/2 cups milk and extracts. Set aside. Combine dry ingredients in mixer and mix on low. Add 21/2 cups of milk, orange juice, butter and orange zest to dry ingredients and mix on low for 2 minutes. Beat on high for an additional 3 minutes. Turn mixer to low and add yolk mixture in 3 batches, mixing for 40 seconds on low each time. Fill buttered and floured cake pans 1/2 full. Bake until tester comes out clean and center springs back when lightly touched. Cool in pans for 20 minutes.
  7. To assemble:
  8. Layer cake as follows: 1 layer chocolate cake, chocolate ganache, 1 layer orange cake, chocolate ganache, 1 layer chocolate cake. Frost as desired.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 391.18 Kcal (1638 kJ)
Calories from fat 175.13 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 19.46g 30%
Cholesterol 96.98mg 32%
Sodium 128.97mg 5%
Potassium 265.7mg 6%
Total Carbs 53.04g 18%
Sugars 35.47g 142%
Dietary Fiber 2.1g 8%
Protein 5.67g 11%
Vitamin C 0.2mg 0%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 4%
Iron 2.2mg 12%
Calcium 102.6mg 10%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 274.76 Kcal (1150 kJ)
Calories from fat 123.01 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 13.67g 30%
Cholesterol 68.12mg 32%
Sodium 90.59mg 5%
Potassium 186.62mg 6%
Total Carbs 37.25g 18%
Sugars 24.91g 142%
Dietary Fiber 1.47g 8%
Protein 3.98g 11%
Vitamin C 0.1mg 0%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 4%
Iron 1.5mg 12%
Calcium 72.1mg 10%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 9
    Points
  • 11
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • low sodium

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