Chocolate orange Almond Cake, Gluten Free

By Floridaberry

Ingredients

• 2 large Oranges
• 6 large eggs
• 250 g (9 oz. Caster Sugar
• 250 g (9oz.) Ground Almonds
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 225 g good dark chocolate

Preparation

Step 1

Put the oranges in a small saucepan and cover completely with water.
Bring these up to the boil and then simmer gently for 2 hours.
(Put a lid on to make sure too much water doesn't evaporate and top up with some more water if they are not completely immersed). After two hours take them out of the water and let them cool. Alternatley you can do these in a microwave.

Put the oranges in a bowl and cover with cling film.

Put into Microwave at full for 5 minutes. Test by removing the cling film carefully and pierce with a skewer or a sharp knife. They should be tender. If not cook for another two minutes. Then let them cool.

Cut them in half and discard the pips and then put all the rest of the orange, flesh, skin and juice into a food processor and pulse it to a puree.

Beat up the eggs with the sugar in a large bowl until they are pale and thick and then fold in the ground almonds and the baking powder and the orange puree.

Add the dark chocolate.

Pre heat your oven to 350 degrees

Line the base of a 9" cake tin with non stick paper and grease the sides.

Pour in the cake batter and bake at this temperature for one hour.

This cake remains very moist and it needs no icing.

Also note it contains no four so it is suitable for a gluten free diet.