Chocolate Orange Cake
Serves: 2
Madilyn Boehm
1 January 1970
Based on User reviews:
48
Spice
53
Sweetness
58
Sourness
44
mins
Prep time (avg)
5.4
Difficulty
Ingredients:
1360 g
Sweet Chocolate (semi-)910 g
Unsweetened Chocolate910 g
Unsalted Butter3630 g
Brown Sugar32
Eggs1 tbsp
Pure Vanilla Extract30 g
Cake Flour4 tbsps
Baking Powder1 tbsp
Salt8 cups
Sour Cream8 cups
Water (boiling)4 tbsps
Orange Peel (finely zested)24
Egg Yolks4 cups
Milk6 cups
SugarDirections:
1
In a large saucepan bring cream to the beginning of a boil
2
Remove from cook top
3
Add chocolate (in chunks)
4
Stir until completely combined
5
Cool to room temperature before filling cakes
6
Set aside to cool
7
; Preheat oven to 325 degrees F
8
Butter and flour cake pans of choice
9
Melt chocolate and set aside to cool to room temperature
10
Beat butter and brown sugar until fluffy (about 4 minutes on medium)
11
Add eggs and vanilla and continue to beat until thick and creamy (about 6 minutes on medium)
12
Add chocolate on low and mix until combined
13
Wisk dry ingredients together
14
Add 1/3 dry ingredients alternately with 1/3 sour cream beginning and ending with dry ingredients
15
Add boiling water and mix only for 30 seconds, scrape bowl and mix the rest by hand
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Immediately pour into pans 2/3 full
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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
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Cool for 1/2 hour before removing cakes from pans
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Wrap in plastic wrap and cool in the refrigerator
20
When totally cold, unwrap cakes and fill with chocolate ganache
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; Preheat oven to 325 degrees F
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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
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Measure 4 tablespoons
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Combine yolks, 11/2 cups milk and extracts
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Set aside
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Combine dry ingredients in mixer and mix on low
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Add 21/2 cups of milk, orange juice, butter and orange zest to dry ingredients and mix on low for 2 minutes
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Beat on high for an additional 3 minutes
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Turn mixer to low and add yolk mixture in 3 batches, mixing for 40 seconds on low each time
30
Fill buttered and floured cake pans 1/2 full
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Bake until tester comes out clean and center springs back when lightly touched
32
Cool in pans for 20 minutes
33
; Layer cake as follows: 1 layer chocolate cake, chocolate ganache, 1 layer orange cake, chocolate ganache, 1 layer chocolate cake
34
Frost as desired