Recipe/ChocolateWeddingCake

Recipe for Chocolate and Orange Cake.

RobHu and Pigwotflies had a wedding cake made of three tiers of this and one of fruit cake.

Chocolate and Orange Cake

Ingredients

4oz/125g white chocolate
6 large eggs, separated
4oz/125g milk chocolate
3 oz/75g brown bread crumbs
8 oz/225g plain chocolate
3 Tbsp/45ml cocoa
6oz/175g softened butter
grated rind of 1 large orange
6 oz/175g caster sugar
6-7 Tbsp Cointreau or juice from orange
6 oz/175g ground almonds
pinch of salt.

Method

1. Grease and line 8" deep round tin. Heat oven to 375F/180C.
2. Roughly chop white and milk chocolate. Melt plain chocolate.
3. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
4. Stir in melted chocolate, almonds, egg yolks, breadcrumbs, cocoa, orange rind and juice or Cointreau.
5. Whisk egg whites and salt to soft peak stage.
6. Fold 1/4 of whisked egg whites into chocolate mixture. Then fold in rest with the chopped chocolate.
7. Pour into tin, cover loosely with foil and bake for 1 hr 40 mins, or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean.
8. Cool in tin for 15 mins and then turn out.

Ice if you like, but it's pretty rich. This cake freezes well if you don't want to eat it immediately.

Quantities for scaling up or down.

diameter in inches      6	8	10	12
white chocolate (oz)	2.25	4	6.25	9
large eggs, separated	4	6	10	14
milk chocolate (oz)	2.25	4	6.25	9
brown bread crumbs (oz)	1.75	3	4.75	6.75
plain chocolate (oz)	4.5	8	12.5	18
cocoa (Tbs)		2	3	5	7
butter (oz)		3.5	6	9.5	13.5
grated rind of orange	0.5	1	2	2
caster sugar (oz)	3.5	6	9.5	13.5
ground almonds (oz)	3.5	6	9.5	13.5