Surprise your family and friends by creating a culinary masterpiece - Chocolate Orange Cake. Chocolate is known to cheer you up. Oranges contain a lot of vitamins. Such a sweet dessert will turn out to be delicious, nutritious and incredibly healthy at the same time.
It is necessary
- - 100 g flour;
- - 3 tbsp. spoons of cocoa powder;
- - 1 tsp baking powder;
- - 100 g of butter;
- - 175 g icing sugar;
- - 100 g of dark chocolate;
- - 5 eggs;
- - 160 g of sugar;
- - a pinch of salt;
- - freshly squeezed juice from 2 oranges;
- - 2 tbsp. tablespoons of orange liqueur;
- - 200 ml of cream;
- - 100 g of cottage cheese;
- - 1 orange.
Instructions
Step 1
Combine flour with cocoa and baking powder. Melt the chocolate in a water bath, and rub the butter with powdered sugar. Mash the yolks with 50 g of sugar and salt.
Step 2
Pour chocolate into the butter, and then the yolks. Add flour.
Step 3
Whisk the egg whites with 50 g of sugar. Stir in the egg and sugar mixture into the resulting dough.
Step 4
Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Fill a baking dish with the biscuit dough and bake for 35-40 minutes.
Step 5
Let's start making orange cream. Whisk the cottage cheese, orange zest and powdered sugar in a blender. Whip the cream using a mixer. Whisk the cream until it thickens. Cut the orange pulp into cubes and add to the cream.
Step 6
Cool the finished biscuit and cut it into 3 layers.
Step 7
Combine orange juice and 60 g sugar, bring to a boil and add liqueur. Saturate the cakes with this mixture.
Step 8
Put the first half of the cream on the first cake, what remains on the second. If you want to make the sides, then cut the finished cake into 4 layers. In this case, make more impregnation so that you can glue the sides and layers with it.
