Chocolate Orange Nemesis

Chocolate Orange Nemesis is a rich flourless chocolate cake, a kind of devil’s food cake. The texture of this cake is silky and smooth and feels like baked chocolate mousse.

INSTRUCTIONS

• Preheat the oven to 120 degrees (you don’t need a hot oven)
• Butter and line a 23 – 25 cm cake tin with baking paper
• Melt the chocolate and butter in a bowl over some boiling water, be careful not to overheat the mixture and make sure the bowl does not touch the hot water
• Remove from the heat as soon as the chocolate is melted, give a good stir once removed from the heat
• Beat the eggs and 70gms of the sugar with an electric mixer until the volume expands to about 4 times
• Heat the remaining sugar with 100ml of water until dissolved and allow it to boil for about 1 -2 minutes until it turns into a light syrup
• Pour this syrup into the chocolate and butter mixture and allow to slightly cool, add the orange juice, orange rind and dilisk, mix until blended
• Pour the chocolate into the egg mixture and mix through until all combined and then pour into the baking tin
• Place a tea towel into the bottom of a deep sided oven dish and place the cake on this (this will prevent the cake from slipping)
• Pour hot water in to the oven dish so that it comes 3/4 of the way up the sides, bake for 50 minutes until set. Allow the cake to cool in the pan of water before removing and turning out
• Serve slightly warm with a dollop of mascarpone cheese or a scoop of vanilla ice-cream