Recipe: This Chocolate and Orange cake is indulgent and fabulous

Chocolate & Orange cake

Ingredients

Eggs                                    250 gms
Castor sugar                       125 gms
Honey                                  75gms
Almond powder                   75 gms
Refined flour                      120 gms
Cocoa powder                      25 gms
Baking Powder                      8 gms
Cream                                 120 gms
Butter                                    75 gms
Dark Chocolate (callebaut)   50 gms
Orange Zest                           (from 2 oranges)

Method

- Mix eggs with sugar, honey and orange zest.
- Whip at slow speed with whisk attachment for 3-4 minutes, till lightly foamy.
- Melt cream, butter and chocolate together.
- Add this mix to the above egg mixture slowly and keep mixing.
- Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl separately.
- Add the dry ingredients and mix gently with a spatula.
- Pour the mix in a greased travel cake mould.
- Rest for 2 hours in a refrigerator.
- Bake at 160C for 40-45min.
- Cool on a wire rack.

Contributed by Pastry Chef Astik Oberoi from the Academy of Pastry & Culinary Arts, Gurgaon.