Chocolate cake with orange filling

Name: Chocolate cake with orange filling
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 1
Ingredients: 50 g Pecan nuts; 4 candied orange slices; 200 g Butter or margarine; 150 g Sugar; 1 pinch Salt; 4 Eggs (size M); 200 g Flour; 150 g Cornstarch; 1/2 package Baking Powder; 6 TABLESPOONS Milk; 4 TABLESPOONS Icing sugar; 200 g Marzipan raw mass; 5 TABLESPOONS Orange marmalade; 200 g Milk chocolate; 7-10 Tbsp candied orange slices, mint and pecan nuts; 7-10 Tbsp Fat and breadcrumbs

AUTHOR
Cassandra Brock

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
120 mins

TOTAL TIME
120 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 1

50 g Pecan nuts
4 candied orange slices
200 g Butter or margarine
150 g Sugar
1 pinch Salt
4 Eggs (size M)
200 g Flour
150 g Cornstarch
1/2 package Baking Powder
6 TABLESPOONS Milk
4 TABLESPOONS Icing sugar
200 g Marzipan raw mass
5 TABLESPOONS Orange marmalade
200 g Milk chocolate
7-10 Tbsp candied orange slices, mint and pecan nuts
7-10 Tbsp Fat and breadcrumbs

Directions

1
Chop the pecans and 4 candied orange slices. Beat the fat and sugar with the whisk of the hand mixer until creamy. Season with salt. Stir in the eggs one after the other. Mix flour, cornstarch and baking powder and stir into the fat-egg mixture by the spoonful. Add milk.
2
Stir in pecan nuts and candied oranges. Fill the dough into a greased and breadcrumbed box form (25 cm long) and smooth it down. Bake in a preheated oven (electric: 175 °C/ gas: level 2) for 45-50 minutes. Remove and leave to stand for approx. 15 minutes. Turn out onto a cake rack and allow to cool completely. Sift icing sugar and knead with the marzipan. Roll out 2 rectangles the size of the cake base. Cut the cake crosswise 2 times lengthwise. Warm up the jam. Spread the lower cake base with some jam, place a marzipan plate on top, spread with jam again. Place a second cake layer on top.
3
Roll out 2 rectangles the size of the cake base. Cut the cake crosswise 2 times lengthwise. Warm up the jam. Spread the lower cake base with some jam, place a marzipan plate on top, spread with jam again. Place a second cake layer on top. Spread with jam again, place a second layer of marzipan on top and spread with jam again. Place the upper cake half on top and press down lightly. Roughly chop the chocolate and melt on a hot water bath. Cover the cake with it, let it cool down and cut it into slices. Serve decorated with candied orange slices and pecans. Makes approx. 12 slices
4
Spread with jam again, place a second layer of marzipan on top and spread with jam again. Place the upper cake half on top and press down lightly. Roughly chop the chocolate and melt on a hot water bath. Cover the cake with it, let it cool down and cut it into slices. Serve decorated with candied orange slices and pecans. Makes approx. 12 slices