Chocolate and orange is a combination that you either love or hate. For some, the slight acidity of the citrus works really well with chocolate, both milk and dark, while others find the tastes to be dissonant. Fanny, from Food Beam, was a member of the latter camp until she decided to try making Bill Granger's Chocolate and Mandarin Cake. The cake is a nearly flourless chocolate cake, made rich with ground almonds and a bit of mandarin orange zest. There isn't enough zest to make the orange flavor overwhelming, although the bright flavor does come through the deeply flavored cake and is helped along by serving the cake with slices of mandarin. The only thing that Fanny doesn't share is what motivated her to go against her usual inclinations and try the recipe in the first place. Whatever her reason, it seems like it was a success.
2-07-2007 @7:20PM Jason Truesdell said... Funny coincidence. I just got a craving to make a seville orange mascarpone sorbet this weekend, and I ended up making a molten chocolate cake to go with it a couple nights ago...
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2-08-2007 @4:03PM Buck Q. Fitch said... Is this such an unheard-of pairing? Growing up, whenever a box of chocolate came around, us kids would always attack the ones with the orange center first. Most everyone I know has tried orange sherbet with chocolate ice cream.
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