chocolate, orange and hazelnut praline cake

This recipe tends to be quite moist due to the leached hazelnut oil, it’s also rather delicious.

Ingredients

300g self-raising flour

5g baking soda

5g baking powder

150g hazelnut praline

4g salt

100g orange juice

120g candied orange

80g chopped walnut/almonds

4 eggs

Tbsp of chocolate ganache

½ cup squeezed orange juice

Instructions:

Pre-heat oven to 170C.

Add the chocolate ganache to the hazelnut praline mix. Combine with the 4 eggs, adding these gradually. Add in the flour (pre-mixed with the baking soda/powder and salt).

In turn, add 30g of the candied orange, the ground/crushed almonds/walnuts, the orange juice, and the 250g melted dark chocolate to the mixture.

Transfer the mixture into pre-greased muffin tins.

Cook until done in an oven set at 170C.