Chocolate espresso cake

For Thanksgiving, I made a chocolate espresso cake as a dessert. Recipe was from Nigella Lawson's cookbook; Feast.
The look of the cake was not very good but it tasted delicious. I served it by topping it with whip cream mixed with instant coffee. We ate it few days after Thanksgiving with coffee and it was still very good. It is dense and goes great with coffee.

Ingredients
5 oz bittersweet chocolate
1 stick plus 3 tablespoons of butter
6 eggs
1.25 cups powder sugar
1teaspoon of vanilla extract
0.5 cups of flour
2 Starbucks instant coffee pockets
0.5 cups of coffee liqueur like Tia Maria

Bring all ingredients, especially eggs to room temperature. Beat the eggs with sugar and vanilla until thick and fluffy.
Melt the chocolate and butter and let them cool. Preheat oven at 350 and butter a 9 inch spring form. Gently fold the flour and instant coffee to the eggs and add the hook ate mix last. Make sure the mixture do not loose it's fluffiness.

Pour it to the spring form and bake for 40 minutes.
I topped it with whip cream mixed with one packet of instant coffee...

Orange chocolate cake

I made a cake for a dinner party last Friday. It is from Nigella Lawson's cookbook; Feast.
I have been getting cookbooks from the library and trying out at least one recipe from each cookbook.
This recipe is simple but rich and also somewhat unusual since it is made with ground almonds. If you replace sugar with sweeteners, it would be great for friends who are on a diet...

Here is the recipe...

Ingredients:
2 small oranges
6 eggs
2 cups of ground almonds
1.25 cups of powder sugar
1/2 cup of unsweetened cocoa
1 heaped teaspoon baking powder

Fill up a pot with water and boil the two oranges for two hours (You can do this the day before you bake the cake). The cut the oranges in half and check for seeds. If there is any, clean them up, if not cut the oranges to big chunks and process them in food processor (the whole oranges with skin and everything)

Then add all the other ingredients including eggs (no need to beat the eggs in advance)
Pour into a buttered cake pan and bake 45 minutes at 350. Check with a toothpick if it is done. You may have to bake some more if not done.
Cool off the cake and then take it off the pan.
I served it with a gallop of whip cream. It was very very yummy...