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June 2019

Chocolate Orange Almond cake

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Ingredients:

6 eggs

1/2 tsp Bi-carb soda

250g Castor sugar or alternative

50g Cocoa

6 oz Dark chocolate

1 heaped tsp baking powder.

200g almond meal

2 small oranges or 1 large.

Method:

Put oranges in a saucepan with cold water and bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer for approx 2 hours ,or until soft. Drain and allow to cool. Cut in half, making sure to remove seeds.

Grease a 20cm springform pan and preheat the oven to 180 celsius.

Pup the oranges in a food processor before adding the eggs, baking powder, bi-carb,almond meal and cocoaand sugar. Processing until you have a smooth batter, but still flecked with orange.

Pour into pan and cook for 45 min, check the cake, you may to to cover it. Then cook a further 15 min till cooked through. Let the cake cool in the tin before removing it.

Glaze- 6 ounces of dark choclate

1 cup of cream

Chop up Dark chocolate or use buttons, into a bowl. Pour the cream into a saucepan and heat until almost boiling and then add chocolate. Stir. Let it stand till cool, decorate cake.  ENJOY