Passover Chocolate Orange Torte

Total Time: 2 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 8 eggs, separated
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 ounces semisweet chocolate, melted and cooled
• 1/4 cup fresh orange juice
• 1 tablespoon grated orange rind
• 2 cups ground walnuts
• 1/3 cup matzo cake meal
• 1/3 cup potato starch
• 2 oranges, peeled, sectioned and de-membraned
• 10 ounces apricot preserves
• 1 orange, peeled, sectioned and de-membraned
• 1/2 cup orange juice
• 6 ounces semisweet chocolate, broken

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 250°f have ready an ungreased 10 inch tube pan (4 1/2 inches deep).
• 2 beat egg yolks with 1/2 cup sugar until very thick.
• 3 add chocolate, orange juice and rind; beat to combine.
• 4 in a small bowl, combine 1 cup of the ground walnuts, cake meal and potato starch. fold into yolk mixture.
• 5 in a separate bowl with clean, dry beaters, beat whites until foamy. gradually beat in remaining 1/2 cup sugar until stiff peaks form.
• 6 gently fold in chocolate mixture into beaten whites.
• 7 scrape into pan and bake 55 to 60 minutes, until cake tests done. invert pan over a bottle neck and let cake cool completely (cake will be upside down).
• 8 prepare the filling:.
• 9 melt preserves; stir in orange sections.
• 10 cool for 5 minutes.
• 11 prepare the chocolate glaze:.
• 12 heat orange juice until warm. remove from heat, add chocolate, stirring until melted and smooth. cool for 5 minutes.
• 13 run a knife around edge of pan; remove cake from pan.
• 14 slice cake in half horizontally.
• 15 spread orange filling over bottom half of cake. replace top layer of cake. coat cake with glaze. garnish with remaining 1 cup nuts and the orange sections.