Chocolate cake with orange marmalade and caramel

AUTHOR
Arlie Wyatt
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
3 5
COOK TIME
120 mins
TOTAL TIME
120 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 20
  • 200 g Dark chocolate
  • 8 Eggs (size M)
  • 150 g + 1 tsp butter
  • 170 g + 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 package Bourbon vanilla sugar
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 150 g Flour
  • 1 coated tablespoon cocoa powder
  • 50 g crushed almonds
  • 1 heaped Tsp baking powder (6-8 g)
  • 3-4 Tbsp Orange juice
  • 1 glass (340 g) Orange marmalade
  • 150–175 g Caramel spread
  • 250 g Dark chocolate coating
  • 325 g Whipped cream
  • 15 g Coconut oil
  • 30 g Almond kernels without skin
  • 2,5 candied orange slices
  • 1 package Vanillin sugar
  • 8 TABLESPOONS Caramel sauce
  • 7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour
  • 7-10 Tbsp Oil
  • 7-10 Tbsp Aluminium foil

Directions

  1. 1

    Chop the chocolate and melt over a warm water bath. Separate the eggs. Cream 150 g butter, 150 g sugar, vanilla sugar and salt with the whisk of the hand mixer. Stir in egg yolks one after the other.

  2. 2

    Add melted, lukewarm chocolate at once and stir in. Mix flour, cocoa, ground almonds and baking powder and stir into the chocolate mixture. Beat the egg whites in a large (fat-free) bowl in 2 portions until stiff, adding 1 tablespoon of sugar at the end.

  3. 3

    Carefully fold 2-3 portions of beaten egg white into the chocolate mixture.

  4. 4

    Grease a springform pan (26 cm Ø) and dust with flour. Fill in the dough and smooth it down. Bake in the preheated oven, 2nd shelf from below (electric oven: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: see manufacturer) for 45-50 minutes.

  5. 5

    Let the cake cool in the mould on a cake rack for about 3 hours.

  6. 6

    Remove the cake from the tin and cut through horizontally 2 times. Place the bottom layer on a plate and sprinkle with orange juice. Mix jam and spread approx. 150 g on the bottom cake layer.

  7. 7

    Cover with the second base and spread it with the caramel spread. Cover with the third base. Spread the remaining jam all around the cake. Let it dry for about 2 hours.

  8. 8

    Chop the chocolate coating. Heat 125 g cream and coconut oil. Add couverture and melt in it while stirring. Immediately spread the cake with the chocolate cream all around and refrigerate for about 2 hours.

  9. 9

    Coat aluminium foil thinly with oil. Caramelise 20 g sugar in a pot until golden brown, remove from the heat. Add 1 teaspoon butter and almonds, turn for about 1 minute and place on aluminium foil. Pull a little bit apart and let it cool down.

  10. 10

    Quarter the orange slices. Whip 200 g cream and vanillin sugar until stiff. Put into a piping bag with a large star-shaped spout and squirt 10 cream tuffs onto the cake. Drizzle some caramel sauce over each tuff and decorate with a slice of orange and caramel almonds.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
460 kcal
CARBS
50 g
FATS
26 g
PROTEINS
7 g