Chocolate-orange cake
Rich cake lower in saturates
British Dessert. Published by Jon Scaife. Updated .
MED
Energy Density
3.4kcal/g
3.4kcal/g
MED
Fat
12g / serving
12g / serving
MED
Saturates
3.5g / serving
3.5g / serving
HIGH
Sugars
40g / serving
40g / serving
MED
Salt
0.4g / serving
0.4g / serving
HIGH
Fibre
7.9g / serving
7.9g / serving
Suitable for:HalalKosherPartyPescetarianPregnancyVegetarian
I developed this recipe several years ago whilst trying to produce a rich cake that was a bit healthier than most
Preparation
- Juice and zest the oranges
- Sift all the dry ingredients into a bowl and gently stir together
- Use a spoon to push 3 even spaced depressions in the dry mix
- Add the oil to 1 depression, the orange juice into another and the essences & triple sec into the third
- Add the eggs and orange zest on top of the mix
- Blend the mix in a food processor on low-medium speed
- Pour the mix into a medium cake tin (pre-greased)
- Sprinkle the chocolate drops on top and stir into the top half of the cake with a spoon (they’ll sink while cooking)
- Cook for 30-40 mins at
200°C - To check the cake is cooked push a knife into the top and withdraw – the knife should come out clean
Notes
Ingredients
- 400g plain flour
- 400g sugar
- 200g cocoa
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 5 tbsp canola oil
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 1 tsp orange essence
- 2 large oranges
- 25ml triple sec
- 2 Eggs
- 100g chocolate chips
Equipment
- Cake tin
- Weighing scales
- Sieve
- Food processor
Nutritional Facts
- Serving size: 120.6g
- (16% / 21%) Calories: 411kcal
- (22%)Total fat: 12g
- (18%) Saturated fat: 3.5g
- (21%) Unsaturated fat: 7.4g
- Mono: 5.6g
- Poly: 1.8g
- (14%) Cholesterol: 41mg
- Trans Fat: 0g
- (25%)Total carbohydrates: 76g
- Starch: 0g
- (133%) Sugars: 40g
- Sucrose: 33g
- Glucose: 0g
- Maltose: 0g
- Lactose: 0g
- Fructose: 0g
- Galactose: 0g
- (32%) Fibre: 7.9g
- (18%)Protein: 9g
- Salts
- (8%) Sodium: 165mg
- (11%) Potassium: 369mg
- Minerals
- Calcium: 4%
- Iron: 32%
- Zinc: 18%
- Magnesium: 31%
- Phosphorus: 28%
- Copper: 89%
- Manganese: 3%
- Selenium: 130%
- Fluoride: 0%
- Cryptoxanthin: 15mg
- Lycopene: 0%
- Lutein: 23mg
- Vitamins
- Vitamin A: 19µg
- Thiamin (B1): 8%
- Riboflavin (B2): 8%
- Niacin (B3): 7%
- Vitamin B5: 0%
- Vitamin B6: 8%
- Folate (B9): 6%
- Vitamin B12: 4%
- Choline: 8%
- Vitamin C: 11%
- Vitamin D: 4%
- Vitamin E: 7%
- Vitamin K: 5%
- Arginine: 79mg
- Aspartic Acid: 0.1g
- Glutamate: 0.2g
- Glycine: 41mg
- Proline: 56mg
- Serine: 92mg
- Tyrosine: 51mg
- Alanine: 67mg
- Cystine: 0mg
- Amino Acids
- Histidine: 28mg
- Isoleucine: 62mg
- Leucine: 0.1g
- Methionine: 42mg
- Phenylalanine: 66mg
- Threonine: 59mg
- Tryptophan: 17mg
- Valine: 73mg
- Lysine: 83mg
- Betaine: 0mg
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