Tangerine Cake with Vegan Chocolate Ganache
- Difficulty: Easy
- Preparation: 15 min
- Cook: 60 min
- Clean up: min
- Steps: 7 steps
- 10 Ingredients
- Difficulty: Easy
- Steps: 7 steps
- 10 Ingredients
- Preparation: 15 min
- Cook: 60 min
- Clean up: min
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Instructions
1. Boil Tangerines
In a pot of water, add in the tangerines along with spices and bring to boil for 2 hours until soft.
Remove the spices and the water and let them cool.
2. Combine ingredients
Cut the tangerines in half and remove the seeds and pit. In a blender, add in all the fruit, skin and all and blend to a smooth pulp.
In the blender, add the almonds flour, egg yolks and baking powder and blend together with the oranges.
3. Preheat oven
Preheat the oven to gas mark 5/190oC/170°C. Butter and line a 7 or 8 inch tin with baking paper.
4. Combine batter with egg whites
Beat the eggs whites with the sugar until it becomes stiff.
Slowly fold the batter with the egg white mixture until all is combined.
5. Bake the cake
Pour the cake mixture into the prepared tin and bake for an hour and 10 minutes, when a skewer will come out clean.
Remove from the oven and leave to cool, on a rack, but in the tin.
6. Make ganache
To make the chocolate ganache, add the chocolate in heat proof bowl and place it on a pot with some water and mix it until it melts. Remove the bowl and keep stirring until all the chocolate is melted, add in some salt
7. Glaze
Spread ganache over cake & decorate with flowers & dried tangerine slices
Plate and Serve!
| This is a gluten free and dairy free alternative but you can swap the almond flour for 220g flour and also swap use cream cheese, lemon juice and powdered sugar for the cream cheese frosting
