This is a wonderful dense flourless chocolate orange cake with a glaze on it …wonderful with a strong cup of coffee and you only need a small slice..it is only about 1″ high
The texture isn’t really like cake we are used to but rest assured, it is delicious
Flourless French Chocolate Orange Cake with Glaze
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup almonds (skin on) and grind finely
- 3/4 cup or 4 oz semi sweet chocolate (melt after measuring)
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 3 eggs
- Grated rind of 1 large orange
- 1/4 cup very fine bread crumbs
Glaze:
- 2 oz unsweetened chocolate
- 2 oz semi sweet chocolate
- 1/4 butter
- 2 tsp honey
- vanilla extract if desired
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 F
- Butter pan then line bottom with parchment
- Cream butter and sugar then add eggs and beat very well
- Stir in melted chocoate, nuts, orange rind and breadcrumbs thoroughly with a rubber spatula
- Pour into pan and bake for 25 minutes
- Cool in pan for 20 minutes…turn out on to rack and cool completely
- Place cake in freezer…then start the glaze
- Glaze:
- Melt all in double boiler and pour over the very cold cake…it will cover it completely
- Decorate as you wish….I usually put whole almonds around the top edge and 3 in the middle but chocolate roses would be pretty …
How can you call this flourless when it contains breadcrumbs....
What size pan do you use?