Orange cake (reader's recipe)

Name: Orange cake (reader's recipe)
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 16
Ingredients: 100 g Dark chocolate; 75 g Ladyfingers; 6 Eggs (size M); 150 g Margarine; 275 g + 2 tablespoons sugar; 175 g crushed almonds; 1 slightly heaped Tsp baking powder; 1 pinch Salt; 12 sheets Gelatine; 6 medium-sized oranges; 7-10 Tbsp grated peel of 1 organic orange; 3 TABLESPOONS Orange liqueur (Grand Marnier); 800 g Whipped cream; 1 package frosting without sugar; 250 ml White wine; 1 TABLESPOON Icing sugar; 7-10 Tbsp Lemon balm; 7-10 Tbsp Grease

AUTHOR
Kelley Price

DIFFICULTY
very easy

RATING

COOK TIME
105 mins

TOTAL TIME
105 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 16

100 g Dark chocolate
75 g Ladyfingers
6 Eggs (size M)
150 g Margarine
275 g + 2 tablespoons sugar
175 g crushed almonds
1 slightly heaped Tsp baking powder
1 pinch Salt
12 sheets Gelatine
6 medium-sized oranges
7-10 Tbsp grated peel of 1 organic orange
3 TABLESPOONS Orange liqueur (Grand Marnier)
800 g Whipped cream
1 package frosting without sugar
250 ml White wine
1 TABLESPOON Icing sugar
7-10 Tbsp Lemon balm
7-10 Tbsp Grease

Directions

1
Finely grate the chocolate. Finely crumble the lady fingers in the universal chopper. Separate the eggs. Mix margarine and 175 g sugar until creamy. Stir in the egg yolks bit by bit. Mix chocolate, sponge crumbs, almonds and baking powder and gradually stir into the fat-sugar mixture. Beat egg whites with salt until stiff. First fold 1/3 of the egg white into the dough, then fold in the remaining egg white
2
Grease the bottom of the springform pan (26 cm Ø). Pour in the dough and smooth it down. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for 45-50 minutes. Let it cool down on a cake rack
3
Soak gelatine in cold water. Squeeze about 3 oranges and measure 300 ml juice. Mix the juice with orange peel, 100 g sugar and orange liqueur. Dissolve the gelatine carefully, stir in the orange juice. Chill the juice mixture until it begins to gel (approx. 10-15 minutes). Remove the cake base from the mould and cut it in half crosswise once, place the cake ring around the bottom cake base. Whip the cream until stiff and fold into the gelatinizing juice. Spread the cream cream on the cake base and smooth it down. Place the upper cake base on top. Chill for 3 hours
4
Peel 3 oranges and remove the white skin thoroughly. Cut into slices. Remove the cake from the ring and cover with the orange slices. Mix the cake glaze with 2 tbsp. sugar in a small pot. Mix with wine. Heat everything while stirring and bring to the boil briefly. Spoon it onto the oranges. Let the icing set. Dust the cake with icing sugar and decorate with lemon balm
5
waiting time approx. 4 hours