Orange cake

ORANGE CAKE

Ingredients:

180 g. corn oil or sunflower oil
4 large eggs
60 g. sugar

350 g. yoghurt

300 g. flour

3 teaspoons of baking powder

Zest of 1 orange and 1 lemon

100 grams dark chocolate 52% cocoa

200 g. orange marmalade

1 cup ground almonds or walnuts

 Glaze

3 tablespoons whipping cream 35% fat,

2 tablespoons brandy

1 shot of orange juice,

180 grams white chocolate

Instructions

Smear with butter a round cake pan 26 cm in diameter and sprinkle it with flour.

Turn it upside down and pat it to drop the excess flour.

Put in the bowl of the mixer the eggs and the sugar and beat them until fluffy.

Add little by little the corn oil while beating.

Beat these ingredients for 8 minutes at a moderate speed.

Stop the mixer and add the yoghurt with a spoon little by little..

Stir gently with a whisk until yoghurt mixes with the remaining ingredients.

Mix the flour with the baking powder.

Add the flour into the bowl and mix with a whisk.

Add the orange marmalade and stir.

Break the dark chocolate into small pieces and add them into the previous mixture.

Add the zest of orange and lemon.

Last add almonds or walnuts.
Stir with whisk, until the mixture is homogenous.

Put the batter in the cake pan.

Place the pan on the bottom rack of the oven and bake at 160 degrees Celsius for 60 minutes.

Drive a knife in the cake and pull it off. If it comes out clean, the cake is baked

This cake does not rise too much and when it cools deflates more

This cake is not very fluffy, but it is very tasty.

Let the cake aside to cool.

Glaze

In saucepan put the cream, the brandy and the orange juice.
Place the saucepan over low heat and wait to warm up.

Break the white chocolate into small pieces and put it into the saucepan.

Stir constantly until chocolate melts.

If the liquid is not enough to make the glaze velvet, add a little more cream.

Remome the saucepan from heat.

Let the claze to cool a litle bit. 

Put the cake on a serving platter.

Pour the glaze over the cake.