Orange Flourless Cake For The Reagan Family

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• passover cake crumbs, for dusting
• 6 ounces bittersweet chocolate
• 3/4 cup unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing
• 1 cup sugar, plus
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 4 egg yolks
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 orange, zest of
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• confectioners' sugar, for dusting

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 375 degrees f.
• 2 butter a 10 inch round cake pan and dust with passover cake meal.
• 3 line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper, then butter and dust the parchment paper.
• 4 gently melt the chocolate over a double boiler. stir the butter into the chocolate to melt, and stir until smooth.
• 5 remove from double boiler and whisk the sugar and orange zest into the chocolate mixture.
• 6 add the eggs and egg yolks and whisk well. sift the cocoa powder over the chocolate mixture and the batter until totally smooth.
• 7 pour the batter into the pan and bake for approximately 35-40 minutes or until the top has formed a good crust.
• 8 cool the cake in the pan on a rack for 10 minutes. invert the cake onto a serving platter. dust with confectioner's sugar.
• 9 serve with candied orange peel, and vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.