Chocolate Orange Cake

• Cuisine: Desserts
• Preparation Time: 30 minutes
• Setting Time: 2-4 hours
• Servings: Makes 12 healthy slices
• Allergens: Nuts
• Requires: food processor, saucepan, high-speed blender, chopping board, knife, grater, bottomless cake ring (12”)

• 150g of whole almonds
• 150g of buckwheat groats
• 1 tablespoon of cacao powder
• 10 pitted organic dates (or Medjool)
• 50ml of coconut nectar syrup
• A pinch of pink Himalayan salt
• 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
• 50ml of melted coconut oil

Cashew Nut Cream Layer:

• 400g of cashew nuts
• 120ml of cold-pressed coconut oil
• ½ a teaspoon of ground cinnamon
• 80ml coconut nectar syrup
• Juice of 3 large oranges 
• Zest of 1 large orange
• 1 pinch of pink Himalayan salt
• 150ml of coconut milk
• 2 tablespoons of cacao powder

• Heat up some water in a saucepan and take off the heat – let the coconut oil stand in the water until melted
• In the food processor, blend the buckwheat and almonds to a fine powder.
• Add in the pink salt, cacao powder and ground cinnamon.
• Whilst still blending add in dates then, when they are broken down, add in the coconut nectar and melted coconut oil – pulse until the mix becomes a sticky dough.
• Press into your cake ring and place into the fridge until the next layer is ready. Its is easiest to do this with a slightly wet hand so that the mix doesn’t stick

For The Cake:

• Zest and juice the oranges.
• Place all of the ingredients except the cacao powder into the blender and blend until smooth on full speed.
• Pour onto the base, saving a little bit in the jug in the marbling on top (about 100ml).
• Add the cacao to the little bit left in the jug, blend well and then pour this randomly onto your cake and swirl nicely with the backend of a spoon handle or a cocktail stick.
• Set the cake in either the fridge or the freezer. You should have a set cake from the freezer in two hours and from the fridge in 8 hours.
• Remove the cake ring carefully and serve.
• Tip: Putting the cacao mix on to the cake, pour it on in thin lines so that you can get more swirls out of it.

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