Spouse and I have recently gone on a bender with the chocolate from Newman's Own Organics. He snapped up the Milk Chocolate; I've waltzed with the Orange Dark, which I whistled over in the One Sassy Tart post. Remember that our willingness to consume large quantities of choc is all for the sake of research -with the view that life is too short to waste on lifeless and heartless imitators.
If you've got a dozen eggs and a good orange, may I make a recommend? Try this at home: a chocolate version of an angel food cake that was considered a favorite of OSCAR-winner Paul Newman's.
Toothfully, we thank the Newman's Own Organics team for another wonderful way to use their product.
This cake is light as air, low in fat, and very easy to make. The trick is to prepare all the ingredients in advance.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
1 cup all-purpose flour
11/4 cups sugar
12 egg whites
1/2 tsp. salt
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
3 tsp. vanilla
11/2 3-oz. dark orange chocolate bars or 3 1.2 oz. Newman's Own Organics Dark Orange Chocolate bars
1 Tbsp. orange rind
Grate 11/2 3-oz. or 3 1.2-oz. Newman's Own Organics' chocolate bars on a cheese grater.
Sift 1 cup all-purpose flour. Then sift flour three more times with 1/4 cup sugar and 1/2 tsp. salt. Sifting onto wax paper makes it easier. Separate 12 egg whites (easily done by cracking egg into hand and allowing whites to run through fingers). Allow egg whites to reach room temperature (15 minutes). Beat whites until frothy. Add 1 Tbsp. lemon juice. Beat until soft peaks form. Sprinkle sugar lightly onto whites 1/4 cup at a time and continue beating at medium speed. Sift 1/4 cup flour/sugar mixture over whites and gently fold in by hand. Add
3 tsp. vanilla and 1 Tbsp. grated orange rind. Alternate flour/sugar mixture and grated chocolate until incorporated. Make sure to fold in gently to avoid reducing volume of egg whites.
Tip: I find it best to use your hand with your fingers spead to fold in the ingredients. It's more effective than using a spatula.
Pour into clean, dry tube pan and bake for 45 minutes until lightly browned. Knife inserted into center should be clean when removed.
Remove from oven and invert pan. Allow to cool 1/2 hour to 45 minutes. Run knife around edges and center of tube to remove.
Serve with strawberries and lightly sweetened whipped cream or for real decadence serve with hot chocolate fudge sauce and ice cream.
Mama Mia adds: You can finely chop the chocolate if grating gets out of hand. Sometimes when you get down to those last little hunks of choc, well, you know, it can be hard to grate all the way. Keep going. The results are worth it!
(Photo taken with Cosmos from our yard, atop Grandmother Mimi's antique marble turtle table, by John H. Ostdick)
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