Orange and Chocolate Cake with Whipped Ganache Frosting and Chocolate Covered Tangerine Slices
Are you a fan of Orange and Chocolate? If not, you’re about to become one!
This is a Vegan Cake that is rich and moist and has a wonderful balance of the orange and chocolate flavors. My husband and I love our “traditional” cake made with butter, eggs, and milk, however, in my never-ending quest to make new recipes, I decided to give this vegan thing a try.
I was thrilled with the cake.
However, I then went and covered it with a whipped cream frosting, resulting in it loosing all the value of being vegan. If you’re looking for a great vegan frosting, head on over to my friend Lisa’s Blog for her recipe.
Honestly, I’m only human and wasn’t really thinking it through when I picked this frosting.
However, I LOVED the frosting!
It was light and fluffy and the chocolate flavor was great! I divided this cake into quarters and gave 3/4 away and everyone who had some loved it!
Do you love that zebra look inside?
That’s from adding the cake batter a quarter cup at a time in the pan. Instead of marbling the two together, I added the batter in “rings” and it looks amazing on the inside! I love it!
Are you ready to dig in?
You should!
- Orange and Chocolate Vegan Cake
- Whipped Ganache Frosting
- 2 Tangerines
- 2 cup Chocolate Chips
- Sugared Orange Peels
- Frost your cold cake with the Whipped Ganache Frosting and place it into the fridge.
- Peel your tangerines and set the "pretty" ones aside. Discard any that are ripped or disfigured.
- Melt you chocolate chips in a bowl and stir until smooth.
- Dip your tangerine segments into the chocolate, shake off the excess and place it on to a cookie sheet lined with wax paper. Do a majority facing the same direction (for the outer perimeter) and a few dipped in the opposite direction for the inner design.
- Remove the cake and add the chocolate dipped tangerines to the top of the cake. Add some candied orange peel to the cake as well.
- Cut and serve.
Get the full recipe for the Orange and Chocolate Vegan Cake HERE.
Get the recipe for the Ganache Frosting HERE.
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Sugar Free Orange Peel Recipe HERE.
Recipe for Sugared Orange Peel HERE.
WHOOOOAAAAA MAH GAWD. Now all I want to do is cover my oranges in chocolate. That looks amazeballs. Also thanks for linking to my ermine frosting! ^__^
You’re welcome. I remembered it from our Happy and Healthy posts. Glad you liked the cake!
This cake is stunning!! What a lovely combo
thanks so much Becca! We loved it!
Yum! I love orange and chocolate. And I love that you made it zebra, it looks so pretty.
Thanks so much. I was so pleased with the inside design.
I love the combo of orange and chocolate and don’t eat it often enough. Your cake looks so pretty. I’d love to have a slice right now! Pinning:)
My husband likes chocolate and orange together – chocolate chip cookies with orange zest are one of this favorites.
That sounds like some great cookies!! Yum!
This cake sounds so delicious and looks beautiful!!!!
I love this cake Karyn it is so gorgeous!
Thank you so much!
That is such a beautiful cake!! And the flavor combo sounds incredible!
Thank you. Everyone enjoyed it! I was very pleases with it.
Wow. Simply put.
I do have a non picture related question for you though..how do you get that mailing list banner at the top of your website? I see them everywhere but am not sure what to call them or how to Google it. Thanks.
Thank you. The bar is “Hello Bar” if you hover over the H in the upper right corner, it’ll take you to the website. Very easy to set up.
Yay! Thanks! I’ve been asking myself this question for ages!
I love the candies orange peel on top! Awesome looking cake that I am checking out from moonlight and mason jars
Cathy
thanks so much for stopping by. I almost didn’t add the peels. I wasn’t sure if it was getting too busy on top of the cake. Glad I put them on.
Yum, I love the chocolate covered mandarin! Thanks for linking up at The Weekend Retreat! Hope tosee you back on Thursday!!