This recipe is from an idea I saw on The Pink Whisk and I want to give a giant nod to her and encourage you to visit her site. It’s such an original idea I can’t claim any credit for it, but it was so good I wanted to make it and share a picture with you all. This is a great recipe to share with friends particularly if you are having a dinner party on new year’s eve.
The idea is relatively simple but something I would never have thought of! Bake a bundt cake – a ring with a hole in the middle – make a chocolate ganache, and pour the liquid chocolate into the hole in the middle of the cake. Slice off chunks of cake and dip into the chocolate, fondue style!
If you cut around the cake working from the outside in, you can leave a ring of cake that will keep the chocolate ganache contained. I also added marshmallows for dipping which looked pretty around the cake as well.
I used my own recipe for this and following a friend’s suggestion did a marble cake; I had some oranges to use up so decided to make a chocolate orange bundt cake. I can't quite remember where I got the recipe from but these are the quantities I used:
Chocolate orange fondue bundt cake
3 1/2 cups self-raising flour
pinch of salt
225g butter, softened
2 cups caster sugar
4 eggs
1 cup sour cream
zest and juice of 3 mandarin oranges (as I had some that needed using up - you could alternatively use one large orange)
1/2 cup cocoa powder
To make the chocolate ganache:
150g milk chocolate, chopped
200ml double cream
To serve: marshmallows
Grease and flour a bundt tin and preheat the oven to 180C.
Cream the butter and the sugar, and beat in the eggs.
Fold in the flour and sat and then the sour cream.
Separate half the mixture into another bowl and add the orange zest and juice to one and the cocoa powder to the other; mix well.
Place a spoonful of each mixture in turn around the bundt tin and repeat until all the mixture has been used.
Bake for around 45 minutes, checking with a skewer to see if the inside is cooked through. When cooked, remove from the oven and leave to cool then turn out of the tin.
Make the fondue by bringing the cream to a simmer in a saucepan and adding the chocolate. Stir until it melts and set aside to cool.
Meanwhile find a flat serving plate that the cake will sit on neatly and trim the bottom of the cake if necessary so it sits flat. Arrange marshmallows around the base of the cake along with anything else you want to dip into the fondue such as strawberries.
Pour the chocolate ganache into the centre of the cake and serve!
Dip the marshmallows into the fondue and slice the outer ring of the cake, leaving enough of the cake to form a ring to keep the fondue in the middle, and dip the cake in the chocolate as well.
This makes a great talking point and sharing dessert and is a great idea from The Pink Whisk!
I think this cake would be perfect for new year's eve so I'm sending it to the Food Year Linkup, hosted by Charlotte's Lively Kitchen.
