Making and eating desserts is not really my thing. Just like baking isn’t something I really enjoy. I always enjoy the savory snacks more than the sweet snacks. Of course I also like something sweet once in a while but if I have to choose I prefer a piece of bread with a nice dip over a piece of chocolate. You’ll see this in my cooking preferences as well; I always focus on the starter and main course but the dessert is just hanging there. Now that I started this blog I do also feel I have to focus on desserts as well and I have to admit; this is no punishment at all 🙂 The cakes below really are a guilty pleasure. They are delicious; the fresh flavor of the orange makes the cake taste less heavy but doesn’t take away the real chocolate taste. That short moment you cut into the cake and the chocolate starts running out…I cannot describe how good that smells and feels: you just have to try it out! It’s easy, quick and the taste is divine!

20 minutes
Easy
0 – 5 euro pp

Ingredients for 4 pers.:

  • 175 gr of dark chocolate
  • 25 gr butter
  • 25 gr flour
  • 75 gr sugar
  • 1 bag of vanilla sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • skin of 1 orange
  • 4 twigs of fresh mint
  • 250 gr of frozen summerfruits

How to prepare it:

Heat up the oven to 200 degrees. Make sure your butter is at room-temperature. Put a pan filled with water on the stove and melt the chocolate au-bain-marie. Stir the chocolate a couple of times while it’s melting.

In the meantime grate the skin of the orange. Take off the small flower at the top of the mint twigs for decoration. Chop the rest of the mint leaves.

Grease your baking dish with some butter. To prevent that the cakes will stick to the baking dish you can sprinkle some flour in your baking dish. You can also cut out small rounds of baking paper and put them on the bottom of the baking dish. Put the dish in the oven so it can pre-heat.

Stir your chocolate again and once it’s melted completely you can take it off the stove and let it cool down a bit whilst making the rest of the mixture.

Put the sugar and butter in your food processor or in a bowl and mix everything until you get a soft, shiny, crumbly mixture. Add the eggs, one at a time, and keep mixing. Add the orange grates and the chopped mint (keep a bit on the side to garnish). Finally add the flour to the mixture.

Now you can add the melted chocolate to the mixture (don’t do this in the food processor). You’ll notice that the mixture will become quite thick. Once it’s all stirred well, you can poor it into the pre-heated and greased baking dish (watch-it as the baking dish is very hot).

Bake the cakes for 10 min on 200 degrees.

After 10 minutes you can get the cakes out of the oven. The easiest way to get them out of the baking dish is to put them upside down on a board. Carefully put the cakes on your serving dish, add some hot fruit and garnish with the mint leaves and some chopped mint and orange.

Now you are ready to serve! Enjoy and don’t forget to slowly cut open the cake; this is the best moment!