Dark chocolate & orange cake

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• mizmay

  28 December 2011

  mizmay rated and commented on this recipe

  

  fantastic and easy to make! Brilliant recipe. I used half the amount of cream for the ganache and it came out perfect. Also used a regular orange as I could not find seville oranges and this worked a treat.

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• fluffyjules76

  31 December 2011

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  This is a fantastic cake, despite the fact it is quite a dense cake a doubled up the receipe and made it like a sandwich cake with a cointreau laced fresh cream filling, it was a resounding success.

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• Marcula

  04 January 2012

  Marcula commented on this recipe

  Made this cake as a dessert for a New Year's Day buffet. Everyone loved it and I will definitely be making it again! Gorgeous!

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• Marcula

  04 January 2012

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  Sorry, forgot to rate the recipe - definitely 5 stars!

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• ruth

  14 January 2012

  ruth commented on this recipe

  Just made this for friends and it went down really well. Tasted amazing! Just the right amount of orangyness! Also added less cream to topping and it was perfect. Will be making this again for sure!

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• ruth

  14 January 2012

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• Kate

  08 February 2012

  Kate rated and commented on this recipe

  

  This cake was so so nice! Had a really godd orange flavour to it! And the ganache tasted really good!

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• MJ

  16 February 2012

  MJ commented on this recipe

  DIVINE. Everything about this cake was great. Huge hit with everyone, even those who don't eat much cake. Thoroughly recommended and a real family and friends favourite.

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• nicdg

  18 February 2012

  nicdg commented on this recipe

  AMAZING! was a great hit at dinner party - everyone LOVED it!! will definitely be my ultimate chocolate cake recipe. I did however use less oil - i put 210 instead and came out perfect. Wouldn't have tried the cake if it weren't for the comments.

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• nicdg

  18 February 2012

  nicdg commented on this recipe

  i no finding perfect recipes are hard! and we cant trust all those out there.. There is a group on facebook that was just created The Bake Exchange which is designed to share everyone's favourite old/new recipes. Join and share all your favourite recipes so we dont need to spend so long looking for and testing all the different recipes out there.

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• nicdg

  18 February 2012

  nicdg commented on this recipe

  i no finding perfect recipes are hard! and we cant trust all those out there.. There is a group on facebook that was just created The Bake Exchange which is designed to share everyone's favourite old/new recipes. Join and share all your favourite recipes so we dont need to spend so long looking for and testing all the different recipes out there.

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• Rickie

  26 February 2012

  Rickie commented on this recipe

  I have made this cake 3 times now, the first time I followed the recipe exactly as this is the first cake iv ever made, it went so well that I made another but also added mixed nuts in with the mixture and added chopped nuts for decoration. The third and most successful time I made three cake sponges to place on top of each other separated by Ganesh, one was plain, one was with added nuts and one had added chocolate drops then same crush/chopped nuts on top for decoration, I also put 3 slices of candied orange on top (which I made my self) cup and a half of water, cup and a half of suger, bring to boil, then med heat until segments go clearish then simmer until water is syrup!) very good cake!!

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• Kaonashi

  12 March 2012

  Kaonashi rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Never been a fan of orange chocolate. But I made this for a friend's bday and everyone loved it and I loved it! He though it was the best cake he's ever tasted. Lovely light texture. Not too bland and not too sickly.

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• superballgirl

  01 April 2012

  superballgirl commented on this recipe

  Not as wonderful as I thought it was going to be - somewhat disappointingly. Despite following the recipe to the letter, the cake went sad in the middle (I am not an inexperienced baker). I rescued it by scooping out the sad bit, making a little less ganache to go round the top, and filling the hole in the middle with cream and fresh orange segments. The cake was drier and heavier than I anticipated it being :/

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• Zuzanka

  17 April 2012

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• Sid

  12 June 2012

  Sid rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Nice and moist tasty although I would have liked more of an orange flavour so if I do it again will be doing two oranges. I also added a middle layer of orange butter icing because my other half has a sweet tooth and then some! He loves it but added cream....! Healthy it's not tasty it is.

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• Shireen82

  15 June 2012

  Shireen82 rated and commented on this recipe

  

  This is one scrummy recipe. Made it for a friend when I was over for dinner..... Almost did not want to leave the whole cake there!

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• Macca

  14 July 2012

  Macca commented on this recipe

  I baked in two tins and used half the ganache recipe amount both to sandwich the two halves together and on top. Worked perfectly! A great cake.

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• Cindy T.

  27 July 2012

  Cindy T. commented on this recipe

  I made it with half s/r flour, and half plain. It did rise more, so making it nice and fluffy, BUT I had to put a bit of mix in another pan. It was superbly tasty - made for my father in law's 83rd Birthday and we all loved it! Only made half of genache, which was more than enough. I was dubious about boiling and whizzing the orange, thinking it would make it bitter, but it was superb.

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• mish

  28 July 2012

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Ingredients

• 1 Seville orange
• a little melted butter , for greasing
• 100g plain chocolate , broken into pieces
• 3 eggs
• 280g caster sugar
• 240ml sunflower oil
• 25g cocoa powder
• 250g plain flour
• 1½ tsp baking powder
• orange candied peel , to decorate

FOR THE CHOCOLATE GANACHE

• 200g plain chocolate , broken into pieces
• 225ml double cream

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Cuts into 10 slices

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Prep 40 mins

Cook 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 Seville orange
• a little melted butter , for greasing
• 100g plain chocolate , broken into pieces
• 3 eggs
• 280g caster sugar
• 240ml sunflower oil
• 25g cocoa powder
• 250g plain flour
• 1½ tsp baking powder
• orange candied peel , to decorate

FOR THE CHOCOLATE GANACHE

• 200g plain chocolate , broken into pieces
• 225ml double cream

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