This orange chocolate gingerbread is a mixture of flavors and smells that will flavor your kitchen with relish. The association of chocolate and orange is always a success, and in this recipe the spices allow to underline their strength.
Chocolate orange gingerbread
Equipment
- Cake mold 25 cm long and 9 cm wide
Ingredients
- 200 g honey
- 100 g chestnut flour
- 100 g cake flour
- 80 g brown sugar
- 200 g dark chocolate 50% cocoa
- 100 g butter
- 25 cl milk
- 180 g candied orange peel
- 10 g gingerbread spice mix (cloves, cinnamon, ginger, four spices)
- 11 g baking powder
Instructions
- Weigh the honey in a saucepan, add milk, brown sugar and spices. Mix with a whisk and bring everything to a boil.
- From the first broths, remove the pan from the heating point. Off the heat add the butter cut into pieces and the chocolate. Mix to melt the whole.
- In a bowl, sift together the chestnut (or rye) flour, T 45 flour and baking powder.
- Pour my half of the mixture from the pan over the sifted dry ingredients, then mix with a whisk. When the whole is homogeneous, pour in the rest.
- Mix again. Then, let stand for about 15 minutes.
- After resting, add the diced candied orange peels then mix.
- We bake this chocolate orange gingerbread in a cake mold 25 cm long by 9 cm wide that you will have buttered beforehand.
- Pour the gingerbread mixture into the cake tin. Bake for about 1 hour 15 minutes in an oven preheated to 170 ° C. Monitor the cooking regularly.
- On leaving the oven, wait 10 minutes before unmolding it on a rack. Then let it cool down.
- Once lukewarm, wrap this chocolate orange gingerbread in cling film while tightening it. Let it stand 24 hours to develop its aromas.
- The next day, all you have to do is cut it into slices and taste it!
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