My Birthday Cake - Chocolate Orange Flourless Cake

Last week during my usual blog hoping I came across this recipe and I liked it. It has chocolate in it and thats more than enough reason for me to fall in love with it. The recipe was pretty simple and easy to prepare. Since it does not use butter I think its healthy too. I wasnt sure how it would turn out and was worried if it would turn out hard, more like a browny as it does not use both butter and flour. On the contrary it was very very moist and fruity.

After the first bite, I thought that it needed more sugar but after a few bites I fell in love with it. It tastes light, moist, fresh, fruity and yummy. For those of you who like your cakes real sweet you can add a ganache frosting or serve it with a creme anglais sauce.

Coming to the reason for this cake, it was my Birthday on Sunday. I wanted to bake my own birthday cake and my husband offered to help. So we decided to bake it together. I followed the recipe as it is from here.

Since I do not have a food processor, we cooked the oranges till they turned soft and blended them coarsely in my blender. It was not clear from the recipe if I had to skin the almonds before powdering, so I decided to powder whole almonds with the skin on(read less work). Be careful while powdering almonds as they can become oily easily. Also the next time I would cut down the cooking time by boiling the oranges in a pressure cooker. I added grated orange rind on top for decoration. I guess it can also be drizzled with white chocolate.

Since it was my birthday, we served the cake with some fresh fruits to make it special. We served it with warm fresh peaches. Heat chopped peaches, sprinkled with sugar in a saucepan till soft. I also added half a cup of freshly squeezed orange juice to the pan. The result was a gooey fruit sauce perect with the orange based cake.

My birthday cake ready to be hogged.