Gooey Chocolate Orange Cake Recipe – Best Easy Nigella Lawson inspired flourless gluten free dark chocolate cake with coconut flour and marmalade – with the video.
Gooey Chocolate Orange Cake
This gooey chocolate orange cake is adapted from a Nigella Lawson recipe that I’ve been cooking for years.
It’s a gloriously moist, rich chocolate dessert that’s quick and easy to put together, especially if you adore the flavor combination of chocolate and orange in sweet treats, like in terry’s chocolate orange, you’ll absolutely love this cake.
The original recipe has flour and is called a store cupboard chocolate orange cake. Because, chances are, you have all of the ingredients for the cake waiting in your pantry and can pop the cake together at a moments notice.
For the marmalade, it’s up to you if you want a smooth texture or prefer bits of orange peel in your cake. We prefer the latter so go for a thick cut marmalade. You could even mix fresh orange zest into the chocolate cake recipe.
You can further enhance the flavor of the cake by whisking through half a teaspoon to a teaspoon of vanilla extract or a touch of orange extract.
In the past I’ve also successfully made this cake in different ways with other flavored jams, so if you’d like a dense strawberry or raspberry cake, just use strawberry or raspberry jam instead. I always have a selection of flavors of jam in my pantry, so can easily whip up an indulgent cake in one flavor or another.
I feel that jam really is the secret ingredient in helping the dark chocolate orange cake taste moist, rich and sweet. You may think that mixing a jar of jam through a cake is a little different, but I feel that jam really is the secret ingredient in helping the dark chocolate orange cake taste moist, rich and sweet.
You don’t even need electric beaters, electric mixer or any special equipment to make the simple recipe. You just melt the butter, then mix through the chocolate to melt.
There’s no cocoa powder in the easy recipe, only pure dark chocolate to impart rich chocolate flavor in the cake. I’ve used a block of dark chocolate but you can feel free to use a combination of chocolate from semisweet chocolate chips to dark, milk or even orange flavored chocolate for even more orange flavor in the cake.
Pour the melted butter and chocolate into a bowl and then whisk all of the other ingredients in until you have a gooey chocolate cake batter.
Then, it’s simply a matter of baking until done and patiently waiting for the cake to cool and enjoy.
In the original recipe, Nigella suggests enjoying the cake without any topping or just sprinkling icing sugar/powder sugar over the top of the cake. I tend to either do that or top the cake with orange slices, chocolate frosting or a even a chocolate orange ganache, if I’m feeling extra indulgent.
Gooey Chocolate Orange Cake Recipe
- 100g/3.5oz Dark Chocolate
- 125g/4.4oz Butter
- 1/3 to 1/2 Cup Sugar
- 300g/10.5oz Orange Marmalade
- Pinch of Salt
- 2 Eggs
- 1/4 Cup Coconut Flour
- Heat oven to 180C/350F and line a round springform baking tin or cake pans with well greased baking paper.
- Chop the chocolate and set it aside.
- Chop the butter and place it in a small saucepan on the stove top over medium to high heat to melt.
- Once the butter has melted, add the chopped chocolate and stir until fully melted.
- Pour the melted chocolate and butter into a large bowl.
- Add the sugar to the bowl and whisk to combine.
- Add the marmalade and whisk until fully incorporated.
- Whisk in the salt and eggs until smooth.
- Add the coconut flour and give the mixture a final whisk until you have a gooey cake batter.
- Pour the cake mix into the prepared pan and place in the preheated oven for 45 to 50 minutes or until baked to your liking.
- Remove from the oven, allow to cool then remove from the baking tin to a serving plate and enjoy at room temperature. You can top the cake with a dusting of icing sugar, chocolate ganache or chocolate orange frosting.
Chocolate Orange Cake Recipe Video Tutorial
Here’s the video where you can watch the easy orange chocolate cake recipe being prepared, step by step. Hit play below or click here to watch on YouTube.
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