Gluten Free Chocolate Orange Cake

Name: Gluten Free Chocolate Orange Cake
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 110 min
Total time: 120 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 150g butter, cut into 1cm cubes; 150g sugar; 3 large eggs, beaten; 1 tsp orange essence or zest of orange; 120g chocolate, melted; 120g gluten free self-raising flour; 30g cacao powder; 10g baking powder; 50g chocolate, melted; 50ml Double Cream; 1 orange zested, to sprinkle on top

Chocolate and orange is one of the great flavour combinations, using a Panasonic bread maker you can let the machine do the work and end up with great results all the time.

Credited to: Panasonic and Coeliac UK collaboration

Kcal: 543.1

Difficulty: Pretty easy

Serves 10

10 mins prep

110 mins cooking time

Ingredients

For the cake

150g butter, cut into 1cm cubes
150g sugar
3 large eggs, beaten
1 tsp orange essence or zest of orange
120g chocolate, melted
120g gluten free self-raising flour
30g cacao powder
10g baking powder

For the chocolate coating

50g chocolate, melted
50ml Double Cream
1 orange zested, to sprinkle on top

Ice cream to serve

Method

Place the blade into the bread pan
Put all the ingredients into the bread pan in the order listed above
Set the machine to the gluten free cake menu this will take 1 hour 50 minutes
After 2 minutes when the beep sounds, scrape any residue from the sides using a rubber spatula
When the program has finished, remove from the bread pan and allow to cool, or serve hot
Heat the cream and stir in the chocolate, top with freshly grated orange zest
To serve, pop the cake on a plate and add a scoop of vanilla ice cream