Intense and aromatic, super-charged with citrus zest and studded with dark choc chips, this Orange and Chocolate Cake is grain and gluten free. It's a winner. Fancy it up for a special occasion by dousing it with a sticky orange syrup. It serves 12. But if there's only 6 of you, everyone gets seconds.Orange and Chocolate Cake, Serves 12Looking for the Recipe? Scroll all the way down.Orange and Chocolate, what is it about them? Put together, they're enticing and curious flavours. They both have a bitter quality to them, but within a sweet context, they're exquisite.Growing up, we loved "Jaffa's" - milk chocolate balls covered with orange icing. They were classic sweets of the Drive In Theatre, and later, the cinema. Do they still exist? Probably. Then came those Chocolate Oranges, whose individual crescents flowered open and were so tempting... but sickly after two. And then came Lindt, with real orange zest perfectly hidden in their luxurious dark chocolate blend... but even that, too much sugar now, for my taste.Every now and again, I 'll come across handcrafted strips of crystallized orange zest lovingly coated in rich couverture. Hard to resist - I usually give in, and halfway through the first strip I'm left with that usual sense of disappointment: too sweet. Too refined-sugar sickly.The beauty of this Paleo Orange and Chocolate Cake, is that it's... well, cake, for one. And sometimes you want that texture and mass that only a cake or a muffin can provide. But, seriously, the quality which we love - like all my '"Sweets and Treats" - is that it's simply not too sweet. The lack of white, refined sugar allows the important flavours to intensify and stand out.You want to use good quality dark chocolate - I use a 100 gram block of Lindt, 85% minimum cacao, chopped into small shards with a chef's knife. And you need firm, full oranges. It's the essential oils from the rind and the tartness of the juice which make this cake ...
Orange and Chocolate Cake – Paleo, Gluten Free
