Chocolate Orange Cake

Incredible chocolate orange cake with chocolate cake layer and a silky orange milk chocolate ganache. A super simple and easy cake!

5 fra 4 stemmer

Prep Time 30

Cook Time 30

Total Time 1

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings

Add the milk chocolate chips to a bowl. Heat up the heavy cream in a small saucepan to a boil. Pour the heated heavy cream over the milk chocolate chips. Make sure all of the chocolate are covered by the heavy cream and let it sit for 2 minutes. Then gently stir it together until smooth.
150 g heavy cream, 400 g milk chocolate chips
Once smooth add the orange juice and gently stir it together until combined with the chocolate. Then add butter and gently stir it together until combined.
3 tablespoon orange juice, 15 g butter
TIP: If the butter isn’t melting together with the ganache, microwave it for 15-30 seconds. Then give the ganache a stir until the butter has melted into the ganache.
Cover the ganache with some cling film so it touches the surface of the ganache and let it cool down to room temperature, on the kitchen counter, while making the chocolate cake. When it’s ready, it should have a thick spreadable consistency (see photo in the blog post).
If you want to cool it down in the fridge, place it in the fridge, then take it out and give it stir every 10-15 minutes. Once it has a thick spreadable consistency, take it out of the fridge and place it on the kitchen counter so it doesn't harden too much.

Preheat the oven at 170ºC/340ºF conventional oven and line 2x 20 cm/8 inch baking pan with parchment paper.
Start by boiling some water and weighing it out so it can cool down a bit while preparing the other ingredients.
120 g boiling water
In a bowl, add granulated sugar and orange zest. Rub it together between your fingers to extract the orange flavor from the zest. Add the dark brown sugar and sift in the remaining dry ingredients. Give it a stir to make sure everything has been combined.
200 g granulated sugar, 3 tablespoon orange zest, 100 g dark brown sugar, 240 g all-purpose flour, 4 teaspoon cornstarch, 50 g unsweetened cocoa powder, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon salt
In another mixing bowl add all of the wet ingredients, including hot water, and with a hand whisk, whisk them together until combined. Be sure to not mix the ingredients too vigorously so the eggs don’t get over mixed.
120 g orange juice, 180 g sour cream or greek yogurt, 110 g vegetable oil, 2 large eggs, 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Slowly pour the wet ingredients into the dry while gently stirring it all together. Make sure there are no lumps left in the batter.
Pour the cake batter into the prepared baking tins and bake them for 28-30 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.
Let the cakes cool on a cooling rack. After 5 minutes, gently remove the cakes from the cake tins and let the cakes cool down completely.

To assemble it, start by cutting the very top of the cooled down cake layers so they have an even top, if needed. Then brush orange juice on both of the chocolate cake layers to add some extra orange flavor. Place the first cake layer on your serving dish.
2 tablespoon orange juice
Then add a big dollop of the orange milk chocolate ganache on the cake layer and with an offset spatula, even it out. Then add the other cake layer and add the remaining milk chocolate ganache and cover the entire cake in an even layer. Optional, make a wavy design using the offset spatula. The cake doesn’t have to look perfect, just have fun and enjoy being creative.
Decorate with orange quarters. Slice an orange into slices and cut the slices into quarters. Add the orange quarters along the edge of the cake.
1 organic orange
TIP: When cutting the cake, heat up a sharp knife under the hot tap. Dry it off and start slicing. The warm knife will cut smoothly through the chocolate ganache.

Keyword chocolate, layer cake, milk chocolate, orange

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