Eggless Blueberry Chocolate Cake … a refreshing burst of flavour! SO GOOD!

Eggless Blueberry Chocolate Cake … Delicious desserts that are full of flavour and just so simple to make are what make me happiest! This layered eggless cake is one of those where chocolate lovers meet blueberry lovers, the best of both worlds really! 

Call me the lazy fast track baker, but my simple eggless sponge is what makes my baking fun! One bowl, add all the ingredients, quickly whisk them until smooth and in under 10 minutes with no fuss at all, the cakes are baking. It forms the base for SO MANY of my desserts

These always bake up perfect as you might have noticed and inspire me to create endless desserts using this very simple, one bowl, eggless recipe as the base. Infinite possibilities as you can see, and these are only a handful. If you stop by my feed on Instagram, you’ll know what I’m talking about!

Back to blueberries and they’re a favourite ingredient in my kitchen. Easily available, quite sturdy and not very perishable, I use blueberries a LOT in desserts. That natural blue always shines. One of my favourites is that No Bake Blueberry Swirl Cheesecake you see above. You can find the recipe here. It’s a fuss free, no gelatine vegetarian dessert and it tastes amazing!

You can find most of my recipes on Instagram on my recipe handle PAB Recipes and some here on my blog. The Ombre Blueberry Cheesecake is one I shared very recently on the blog. It’s much too delicious and really simple to make. I hope you try try making it. Anything ombre gets my vote and this was so worth it!

Did I tell you that the 4 ingredient blueberry cream cheese filling and frosting in this eggless Blueberry Chocolate Cake is finger licking good? Very addictive, delicious actually, it’s light, creamy, smooth, glossy and doesn’t get too firm like a buttercream. Do make sure you use a nice full fat cream cheese to get it to the right consistency. Unlike traditional frostings, this blueberry frosting doesn’t use cups and cups of icing sugar to get it going. I used just enough to sweeten it if you know what I mean.

The blueberry compote adds a ton of flavour and moistness to this pretty as a picture Blueberry Chocolate Cake, the drips of blueberry syrup quite delightful. I have a detailed blueberry compote recipe on the blog if you like. It’s quite the perfect, simple recipe that comes together in 10 minutes.

Once the cakes are baked and the blueberry compote is ready and cool, assembling doesn’t take a lot of time. Once assembled, I like to chill the cake for a couple of hours for it to get moist and for the flavours to mature. After that, slice this addictive good, earthy Blueberry Chocolate Cake & ENJOY!

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking or share a comment here on the blog if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!


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Eggless Blueberry Chocolate Cake

This layered eggless cake is one of those where chocolate lovers meet blueberry lovers, the best of both worlds really! The one bowl eggless cake is as simple as the blueberry cream cheese filling & frosting. The recipe is really a cake walk!
Makes one 6" dessert cake
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword baking, blueberries, cake, chocolate, cream, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, eggless cake, fruit, homemade, no eggs, no gelatine, one bowl, sweet, V day, vegetarian
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Chill 30 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 30 minutes
Servings 6 people

Ingredients

Eggless chocolate sponge

  • 210 g buttermilk
  • 50 g oil
  • 100 g castor sugar
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • Pinch salt
  • 15 g cocoa powder
  • 50 g wholewheat flour/aata
  • 100 g all purpose flour/maida

Blueberry compote

  • 100 g blueberry frozen or fresh
  • 30 g sugar
  • 1 tsp cornflour
  • 1 tbsp water
  • Juice of /2 lime

Blueberry Cheesecake Filling

  • 200 g cream cheese full fat, chilled
  • 40 g whipping cream 30% fat, chilled
  • 50 g icing sugar
  • 1 1/4 tsp blueberry powder

Blueberry Cheesecake Frosting

  • Remaining 135g blueberry cheesecake filling from above
  • 100 g cream cheese full fat, chilled
  • 25 g icing sugar
  • 1/2 tsp blueberry powder

Instructions

Eggless Chocolate Sponge

  • Makes two 6" cakes
  • Preheat the oven to 180C. Line two 6″ tins with parchment.
  • In a large bowl, add all the ingredients and give them a good whisk until .
  • Pour the batter into the tins, about 260g per tin, and bake for 18-20 minutes, until done or the tester comes out clean. Cool completely on the rack. Trim the tops.

Blueberry compote

  • Place all the ingredients EXCEPT lime juice in a heavy bottom pan and simmer slowly until the berries begin to soften and release their juices.
  • Strain the berries out into a bowl and reserve.
  • Reduce the syrup over low heat until very thick, then add it back to the reserved berries.
  • Stir in the lime juice. Cool completely..

Blueberry Cheesecake Filling

  • In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese and icing sugar until nice and smooth. Beat in the whipping cream adding the blueberry powder ¼ tsp at a time until you reach the desired colour.

Blueberry Cheesecake Frosting

  • Turn the leftover filling into a large bowl and add the remaining ingredients for the frosting. Whip until smooth, adding more blueberry powder if required to reach the desired colour.

Assemble

  • Place a 6” sponge on a serving platter. Top with the blueberry cheesecake filling followed by the blueberry compote after straining out excess liquid if required.
  • Top with the second sponge and very gently push downwards to sandwich into place. Place it in the freezer for 30 minutes for the filling to firm up slightly.
  • Frost with the blueberry cheesecake frosting and garnish as desired.
  • Slice and serve immediately or refrigerate until required

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Most Delicious Eggless Raspberry Pistachio Cake … Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth

Eggless Raspberry Pistachio Cake … Where favourite colours and flavours come together with chocolate to create absolute deliciousness! My love for layered desserts, natural flavours, fruit in dessert, petite cakes and chocolate all meet in this little dessert cake. Each spoon is bursting with fresh, deep flavour and you just want to keep diving in!

There’s something about natural colors of fruits that really appeals to me, so much so that I can’t get enough. It’s always about pairing and always about a freshness of flavour. Add to that the visual appeal because desserts must look good and taste as nice!

Talking about colours makes me think of berries instantly. I make eggless desserts a LOT with berries through summer as I find them fascinating … so much appeal, so much fresh flavour, also a ton of natural colour! One of my favourite berries are raspberries and I find them endlessly inspiring. This Eggless Raspberry Pistachio Cake is the result of one such inspiration!

Think berries, think colour, then think pistachios and fall in love with that quintessential pistachio green. I’m smitten by the beautiful pistachio green and how well it pairs with the vibrant red of raspberries. Tke a look at the collage below and you’ll know what I mean. It’s therapeutic working with such colours and flavours and an absolute joy to style and shoot them! Just feels so effortless!

This little eggless raspberry pistachio layer cake is yet another way to play with these flavours and colours and the outcome is soooooo delicious! Pretty too, don’t you think?

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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Eggless Pistachio Raspberry Cake

When favourite colours and flavours come together with chocolate to create absolute deliciousness! My love for layered desserts, natural flavours, petite cakes and chocolate all meet in this little dessert cake, each spoon bursting with flavour and texture!
Serves 2-4
Course Dessert
Cuisine American, British
Keyword baking, cake, chocolate, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, eggless cake, fruit, one bowl, pistachios, raspberries, summer dessert, sweet, vegetarian
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
6 hours 45 minutes
Total Time 6 hours 45 minutes
Servings 2 people

Ingredients

Eggless chocolate sponges (makes four 4″ cakes, recipe can be halved)

  • 105 g buttermilk
  • 25 g oil
  • 50 g castor sugar
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • Pinch of salt
  • 10 g cocoa powder
  • 75 g all purpose flour/maida

125g fresh raspberries {for 1 cake}

Pistachio cream filling {for 1 cake}

  • 150 g cream / 25% fat
  • 1.5 tsp agar agar powder
  • 20 g sugar (to taste}
  • 75 g white chocolate room temperature, chopped
  • 150 g cream cheese room temperature, whisked smooth
  • 60 g pistachio butter

To top

  • Chocolate ganache, fresh raspberries, fresh mint leaves, edible flowers

Instructions

Eggless chocolate sponge

  • Preheat the oven to 180C. Line the base of four 4″ pastry rings/tins with foil and the sides with parchment.
  • In a large bowl, add all the ingredients and give them a good whisk.
  • Divide the batter between the rings/tins.
  • Bake for 12-15 minutes, until the tester comes out clean. Cool completely, then trim the tops.

Pistachio cream filling for 1 serving

  • Whisk the cream and agar agar in a saucepan and simmer over low heat for 2-3 minutes stirring often to activate the agar agar. Alternatively, this can be done in the microwave in 30 second bursts.
  • Pour over the white chocolate and leave to stand until the chocolate melts. Whisk until smooth. Whisk in the cream just before you need to do the filling.
  • To 190g of the filling, whisk in 60g pistachio butter.

Assemble

  • Secure an acetate sheet snugly around a 4″ eggless chocolate sponge.
  • Pipe or spoon over the pistachio filling up to just below the halfway mark. Place it in the freezer for about 30 minutes until firm.
  • Scatter over a layer of fresh raspberries, about 15-16 per cake.
  • Top the berries with the remaining white cream filling gently. Make sure the filling isn’t too loose/flowy or it will cover the raspberries completely. You need a thickish, batter like flowing consistency.
  • Place the cake in the freezer for 4-5 hours until frozen, peel off the acetate sheet and leave to set in the fridge overnight.
  • Top with a spoon of melted chocolate ganache if desired. Garnish with fresh berries.

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Eggless Mango Saffron Pistachio Tart Cake … as delicious as it is pretty!

Eggless Mango Saffron Pistachio Tart Cake… Mangoes, saffron and pistachios come together to create magic, a cake worth every crumb! Hello mango season, I think this is my favourite season just because we are blessed by the best mangoes there ever were!

M is for May, M is for mangoes, or rather an abundance of mangoes. It’s probably the only way to survive the unforgiving, harsh Indian summer where the plains of North India sizzle at 45C-50C. We are quite happy to drown under a deluge of the king of fruits, the luscious mango that makes summer bearable, beautiful too!

If you stop by my feed on Instagram, you might instantly pick out my love for desserts in seasonal flavours, a touch of saffron, a sprinkling of pistachios, that finish with edible flowers or rose petals. For me, it’s always been the visuals and the taste, both equally important, both come together to tell the story like the screenshot below!

These days I’m smitten with mangoes as you might have already guessed. I love the pop of colour they add, I love how beautifully they can lift up a dessert, how well they compliment gentle flavours like rose, saffron, pistachio and how incredibly delicious they are! It’s a fruit we absolutely love to love on the subcontinent, and I believe it brings out the best of our creativity.

This Eggless Mango Saffron Pistachio Tart Cake brings together one of my favourite flavour combinations for summer, a celebration of all things Indian! You can find a load of these flavours in Indian desserts or mithai, and they always remind you of how beautifully the ingredients pair together.

Quintessentially Indian, our cuisine is a riot of colours with flavours like these, an inspiration to create pleasing desserts! I really enjoy doing just that …

The Eggless Mango Saffron Pistachio Tart Cake Recipe is an eggless cake baked in a special tart tin with an indent, a cake that turned out as delicious as it was pretty. The recipe is a simple one bowl part wholegrain eggless pistachio saffron sponge baked up beautifully in this favourite flan tin.

I doused the cake generously with a deep infused saffron milk, filled the indent of the flan tin {shared below} with the best mangoes of the season, then smothered them with a cream filling. Every slice of the cake is delightful and screams mango season. If you’re looking for the special mango cake this season, honestly this is it!

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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Eggless Mango Saffron Pistachio Tart Cake

Mangoes, saffron and pistachios come together to create magic, an eggless cake worth every crumb! Makes one 8" tart cake
Course Dessert
Cuisine American, British, Indian
Keyword agar agar, baking, cake, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, eggless cake, eggless layered cake, fruit, Indian dessert cake, mangoes, one bowl, pistachios, saffron, simple, summer dessert, tart cake, tropical
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Cooling & Setting time 6 hours
Total Time 7 hours 15 minutes
Servings 6 people

Equipment

  • 1 Flan tin

Ingredients

Eggless saffron pistachio tart cake

  • 210 g buttermilk
  • 35 g oil
  • 15 g clarified butter/ghee
  • Generous pinch saffron
  • 2 tbsp finely chopped pistachios
  • 100 g castor sugar
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 3/4 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • Pinch salt
  • 50 g wholewheat flour/aata
  • 115 g plain flour/maida

Saffron milk

  • Generous pinch of saffron + 100ml milk + 1 tsp sugar steeped overnight

Cream filling

  • 100 g cream 25% fat
  • 1 tsp agar agar
  • 50 g white couverture chocolate chopped
  • 100 g cream cheese softened

Fruit filling to fill indent

  • 100 g freshly diced mango

To finish

  • chopped pistachios, diced mango, rose petals, mint etc

Instructions

Eggless saffron pistachio tart cake

  • Preheat the oven to 180C. Lightly grease an 8" loose bottom flan tin.
  • In a large bowl, add all the ingredients and give them a good whisk with a balloon whisk/electric whisk.
  • Pour the batter into the prepared tin, and tap on the counter to level.
  • Bake for 30 minutes, until the tester comes out clean.
  • Cool completely, then demold the cake gently and place it upside-down on the serving platter.

Cream filling

  • Place the cream, sugar and agar agar in a saucepan and whisk until smooth. Simmer over low heat for 2-3 minutes stirring often to activate the agar agar.
  • Pour this over the white chocolate and leave to stand until the chocolate melts. Whisk until smooth. Stand over warm water if required.
  • Whisk in the cream cheese just before you need to pour it in. Taste and adjust sweetness as desired.

Topping

  • Dice the mangoes and fill the indent with them then top the cake with them.

Assemble (see video}

  • Moisten the cake with the steeped saffron milk.
  • Fill the cavity with diced mangoes, then pour the cream filling over.
  • Place the cake in the fridge to set overnight.
  • Garnish with finely chopped pistachios, diced mangoes, fresh rose petals, mint etc

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Eggless Raspberry Chocolate Cake… The absolute joy of pretty desserts!

Eggless Raspberry Chocolate Cake… The joy of small desserts! An eggless chocolate sponge, deep delicious ganache, bright fresh raspberries topped with the smoothest and most luxurious mascarpone cream. The flavours do a magic dance on the palette, each spoonful quite delightful. The raspberries were quite special here though you can always use strawberries if you like.

It’s not often I use fresh raspberries. When I do, I like to make it special just like this no gelatine, vegetarian pistachio panna cotta below topped with a raspberry compote, or then the petite dessert cake I’m sharing today.

I had a small batch of the freshest raspberries and the colour just had me so inspired that I had to make something pretty, something colorful, and of course something preferably with chocolate as soon as possible. Why chocolate? It’s one of my most favourite ingredients to play with, one that pairs beautifully with any red berries! I’ve even written a cookbook on chocolate, published by Penguin.

This pretty little cake seems perfect for Spring. Raspberries are very very perishable here, so the Eggless Raspberry Chocolate Cake was what I made in a hurry. It’s another small dessert added to my repertoire of petite colourful desserts, something I absolutely love creating!

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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Eggless Raspberry Chocolate Cake

An eggless chocolate sponge, deep delicious ganache, bright fresh raspberries topped with the smoothest and most luxurious mascarpone cream. The flavours do a magic dance on the palette, each spoonful delightful. The raspberries were quite special here though you can always use strawberries if you like. Makes 4 small cakes.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American, British
Keyword agar agar, baking, cake, chocolate, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, fruit, homemade, raspberries, strawberries, sweet, vegetarian
Prep Time 1 hour
12 hours
Total Time 13 hours
Servings 8 people

Ingredients

Eggless chocolate sponges (makes four 4″ cakes)

  • 105 g buttermilk
  • 25 g oil
  • 50 g castor sugar
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • Pinch of salt
  • 10 g cocoa powder
  • 75 g all purpose flour/maida

125g fresh raspberries

Chocolate ganache

  • 200 g cream 25% fat
  • 160 g 54% dark chocolate chopped

Mascarpone filling

  • 200 g cream 25% fat
  • 2 tsp agar agar
  • 20 g sugar (to taste}
  • 100 g white chocolate chopped
  • 200 g mascarpone

Instructions

Eggless chocolate sponges

  • Preheat the oven to 180C. Line the base of four 4″ dessert rings tin with foil and the sides with parchment.
  • In a large bowl, add all the ingredients and give them a good whisk.
  • Divide the batter between the tins.
  • Bake for 15-17 minutes, until the tester comes out clean. Cool completely, then trim the tops.

Chocolate ganache

  • Heat the cream and add the chocolate to it. Cover until chocolate melts, then stir until smooth.

Mascarpone filling

  • Whisk the cream and agar agar in a saucepan and simmer over low heat for 2-3 minutes stirring often to activate the agar agar. Alternatively, this can be done in the microwave in 30 second bursts.
  • Pour over the white chocolate and leave to stand until the chocolate melts. Whisk until smooth. Whisk in the mascarpone just before you need to do the filling.

Assemble

  • Secure an acetate sheet snugly around the eggless chocolate sponge.
  • Pour over the chocolate ganache, approx 100g per cake. Place it in the freezer for about 30 minutes until firm.
  • Scatter over a layer of fresh raspberries., about 15-16 per cake.
  • Top the berries with the mascarpone cream, approx 125g per cake.
  • Place in the freezer for 4-5 hours until frozen, peel off the acetate sheet and leave to set in the fridge overnight.
  • Top with melted chocolate ganache if desired. Garnish with fresh berries.

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Delicate & Delightful Eggless Raspberry Vanilla Bean Cake … it’s #Pinktober

Eggless Raspberry Vanilla Bean Cake … some cakes are delicate, soothing, calming, and some cakes are wickedly delicious and satisfying. This Eggless Raspberry Vanilla Bean Cake is all that and more, all these beautiful adjectives coming together in one dessert.

The cake also ticks off an important box I tick every October, it has PINK, so yay, I’ve got #Pinktober covered as well!

What is Pinktober you might ask?

October 1st marks the beginning of breast cancer awareness month all over the world. American Cancer Society uses this time to boost their campaign to raise awareness to breast cancer and to inform people that there is now a 98 percent rate of survival if the cancer is detected early. October is the month where you will see pink ribbons everywhere, which has been the national symbol for breast cancer awareness since it was first introduced back in 1991.

So yes, it’s that PINK time of the year and October begins with Mr PABs birthday and it’s always a cake with a pink element for Pinktober. It’s been over a decade that I’ve been doing pink desserts to raise awareness for breast cancer, to spread the message. The cake above was the one I made for Mr PABs birthday 2 years ago, the cake that made it to the cover of my cookbook with Penguin.

I’ve missed sharing the cakes on the blog for a few years but that’s only because of so many distractions, generally too much to do. Pink cake however has always been home made and has always seen some pink, a colour I use often in my desserts, styling and photography!

This year I’ve decided to be a little more proactive, keep things up and running, so here we go screaming PINK into October. This Raspberry Vanilla Bean Cake, Mr PABs birthday cake this year, turned out to be everything I hoped it would be. I had my fingers crossed that it would set neatly and it didn’t disappoint.

The flavours were something I knew would work, and they did in perfect harmony. An eggless sponge flavoured with fresh orange zest, mascarpone with a raspberry compote {what’s not to love}, and a delicious vanilla bean mascarpone layer. The cakes moistened with a dash of Cointreau, an orange liqueur, added oomph to the Raspberry Vanilla Bean Cake and how!

I didn’t use fresh raspberries since they are far too expensive as we are not native raspberry growers. I did have a couple of boxes of frozen raspberries in the freezer that FroGo had sent to me a short while ago. They are a breeze to use and so much more economical. Of course, the charm of fresh berries, the delicate beauty of raspberries would make the cake look even prettier yet I loved how this looked!

You can find more EGGLESS recipes here!
You can find recipes with BERRIES here.

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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Eggless Raspberry Vanilla Bean Cake

Delicate, calming and deeply indulgent, this is a special cake for October!
Course Dessert
Cuisine French
Keyword agar agar, baking, cake, dessert, eggless, eggless baking, eggless cake, eggless layered cake, fruit, summer dessert, sweet, vegetarian
Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 10 hours
8 hours
Servings 6 people

Ingredients

Eggless orange sponges {6″ + 4″}

  • 105 g buttermilk
  • 25 g oil
  • 50 g castor sugar
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • Pinch of salt
  • Zest of 1 small orange
  • 85 g plain flour/maida

Raspberry compote

  • 60 g frozen raspberries
  • 30 g sugar
  • Juice of 1/2 lime
  • 1 tsp cornflour
  • 1/4 tsp agar agar

Mascarpone filling

  • 225 g Amul Fresh cream / 25% fat cream
  • 2 tsp agar agar
  • 15 g sugar {to taste}
  • 100 g white chocolate chopped
  • 200 g mascarpone
  • 1/2 scraped vanilla bean
  • Cointreau to moisten {optional}

Instructions

Eggless orange sponges

  • Preheat the oven to 180C. Line a 6″ tin and a 4″ tin with parchment.
  • In a large bowl, add all the ingredients and give them a good whisk.
  • Divide the batter between the tins {about 170g in the 6″/ 90g in the 4″ tin}. Bake for 15-20 minutes, until the tester comes out clean. Cool completely, then trim the tops.

Raspberry compote

  • Stir together, and leave in the pan to macerate.
  • Simmer over very low heat until the raspberries break down and thicken slightly. Strain out about 1 tsbp to colour the frosting if you like. Reserve.

Mascarpone filling

  • Place the cream, sugar and agar agar in a saucepan and whisk until smooth. Simmer over low heat for 2-3 minutes stirring often to activate the agar agar.
  • Pour this over the white chocolate and leave until the chocolate melts. Whisk until smooth.
  • Whisk in the mascarpone just before you need to pour it in.
  • Divide into 2, approx 270g each.
  • Layer 1 – Stir in the raspberry compote into one half, then blend with an immersion blender.
  • Layer 2 – Whisk the scraped vanilla bean into the other half.

Assemble

  • Secure an acetate sheet snugly around the 6″ orange sponge. Moisten with Cointreau.
  • Pour over the raspberry mascarpone filling. Place the 4″ sponge in the centre of the filling and very gently push in a little. Moisten the small sponge with Cointreau, then pour the vanilla bean filling over to cover it completely.
  • Place in the freezer for 3-4 hours until frozen, then peel off the acetate sheet and leave in the fridge overnight.
  • Frost with mascarpone if desired.

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Chocolate Orange Cavity Cake {eggless} … a refreshing take on Jaffa Cakes

Eggless Chocolate Orange Cavity Cake … a refreshing take on Jaffa Cakes AND one of my favourite dessert cakes, the cavity cake I created this past summer. I made several popular versions of the cavity cake, each one more fun then the last. I have to admit, it’s now become a bit of an addiction! My latest one is this version with chocolate and orange jelly in a attempt to use up my last few jars of marmalade before the season arrives to bottle more batches!

It’s a simple, refreshing cake and reminds me of Jaffa Cakes that I relished while visiting the UK often in the late 1980’s through the 1990’s. The nostalgia really came alive with this homemade marmalade and chocolate pairing, my idea of a cavity cake intriguing, different and fun! Did I mention it’s quite a simple idea really?

With the weather changing, this Eggless Chocolate Orange Cavity Cake is a really nice burst of flavour to brighten your dessert table. With the last of my homemade bitter orange marmalade jars on the shelf, I knew what I wanted to use them for.

The marmalade recipe is on my blog, one that I make every year. It uses calamondins / bitter tangerines / kumquats / narangis or ornamental oranges as referred to locally tangerines with just sugar and water. One of my favourite ways to use produce from my little tree, and sometimes produce from trees in the neighbourhood.

This cake tastes beautiful, and offers an inviting citrus overload. The eggless sponge is flavoured with orange zest and is light and delightful. The cavity has layers of chocolate and vanilla cream, finished off with an interesting marmalade jelly and fresh orange wedges. All in all a delightful take on yet another variation of my cavity cake. Take a look at the assembly here.

Don’t forget to tag me on Instagram @passionateaboutbaking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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Chocolate Orange Cavity Cake Eggless

This cake tastes beautiful, and offers an inviting citrus overload. The eggless sponge is flavoured with orange zest and is light and delightful. The cavity has layers of chocolate and vanilla cream, finished off with an interesting marmalade jelly and fresh orange wedges. All in all a delightful take on yet another variation of my cavity cake. Serves 4
Course Dessert
Cuisine American, British, French
Keyword baking, cake, dessert, eggless, eggless baking, eggless cake, fruit, sweet, vegetarian
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Servings 4 people

Equipment

  • Oven
  • bowls
  • 4" baking tin/dessert ring
  • 2" dessert ring
  • bowls
  • whisk
  • spatula
  • Ping bag
  • Nozzle

Ingredients

Eggless orange sponge

  • 110 g buttermilk
  • 30 g oil light olive
  • 60 g sugar castor
  • Zest of 1/2 orange
  • 1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • A pinch salt
  • 100 g all-purpose flour

Syrup to moisten

  • 25 ml Cointreau or orange juice
  • 1 tbsp bitter orange marmalade

Chocolate ganache

  • 100 g cream Amul fresh
  • 75 g dark chocolate 54% couverture

Orange jelly

  • 50 g bitter orange marmalade
  • 25 g water
  • 1/2 tsp agar agar powder

Vanilla pastry cream

  • 50 g cream Amul fresh
  • 30 g ghee clarified butter
  • 1/2 tbsp cornflour
  • 1/2 tsp agar agar powder
  • 1/4 vanilla bean scraped
  • 15 g sugar

Instructions

Eggless orange sponge

  • Preheat the oven to 180C. Lightly grease one 4″ baking tin.
  • Whisk together all the ingredients in a bowl until smooth.
  • Transfer batter to the prepared tin and bake for 35-40 minutes until light golden brown, and the tester comes out clean. Cool completely, then level out.
  • Once the cake is cool, take a 2″ dessert ring, centralise it and few push it all the way through. Gently remove the cut out and using a spatula/flat spoon, transfer the ring gently to your serving platter. Slice a 1 cm layer from the cut out for the base. Immediately return to the cut out and push into place.
  • Syrup to moisten
  • Stir together

Chocolate ganache {filling & frosting}

  • Heat the cream to very hot. add the chocolate and leave it to stand for 5-10 minutes, until the chocolate softens. Whisk until smooth.
  • Leave to cool and then fill cavity with 50g of ganache.
  • Pipe the remainder over the top once the ganache reaches piping consistency.

Vanilla pastry cream

  • Whisk everything together in a saucepan and simmer over very low heat until thickened, stirring constantly. Alternatively, cook in microwave at full power at 30 second intervals, whisking well between each. It will take approximately 3-4 goes to thicken. Whisk well and cool, stirring now and then. Whisk before using

Orange jelly

  • Whisk together all three in a saucepan and simmer for 1-2 minutes, stirring often.
  • Cool and pour over vanilla cream layer while still pourable. This can be reheated gently to get the correct consistency.

Assemble

  • Moisten the cake with the syrup.
  • Add 50g chocolate ganache as the first layer. Place in freezer for 20 minutes.
  • Top with vanilla cream. Place in freezer for 20 minutes.
  • Pour over the jelly and leave to set for 2-3 hours.
  • Pipe over with remaining ganache.

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