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chocolate sourdough orange cake

Sourdough chocolate & orange bundt cake

Use your sourdough dicards and orange peels to make this scrumptious dessert!

Course Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Keyword bundt cake, cake, chocolate cake, easy, orange cake, sourdough, sourdough discards, zero waste recipe
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Servings 10 people
Author Maria

Ingredients

Cake

  • 340 g all purpose flour *see notes
  • 325 g sourdough starter - 100% hydration (about 2 cups)
  • 20 g cocoa powder 1
  • 300 g white sugar
  • 200 g vegetable oil
  • 4 L eggs
  • 100 g boiled and ground orange peels **see notes
  • 70 g milk ***see notes
  • 1 tbsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon optional

Chocolate Glaze

  • 3/4 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
  • 4 tbsp butter
  • 1 pinch ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 cup chopped walnuts optional - decoration

Instructions

Cake

  1. Preheat your oven at 350F

  2. Grease your a bundt cake pan that can hold at least 12 cups

  3. On a bowl, mix all dry ingredients and set aside

  4. On your stand mixer bowl,add eggs and sugar and beat using the whisk attachment until they're fluffy and the color is lighter

  5. Add milk, vegetable oil, orange, and vanilla extract and beat until incorporated

  6. Add the sourdough starter and incorporate it at medium speed, you might need to pause or even use a spatula to break it down a little

  7. Add the dry ingredients and with a spatula or the paddle attachment incorporate them into the batter. Don't over mix. If possible, don't add all the dry ingredients at once, add them in 2 or 3 times to avoid lumps

  8. Bake at 350 for 55-65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. If needed, tent the cake with aluminum foil to avoind the top from burning

  9. When ready, take it out of the oven and let it cool down in the pan for 5-10 minutes, then transfer onto a wire rack

Chocolate glaze

  1. When the cake is already baked, melt the butter and the chocolate chips at a very low temperature

  2. Add the cinnamon combine it well

  3. Pour on top of the cake and decorate with walnuts or any other nut you prefer

Recipe Notes

*I've tried both, chocolate sourdough starter and regular sourdough starter. If you have chocolate starter, use it and avoid the cocoa powder and just add 20 more grams of all purpose flour.

**You need to boil the peels 2 or 3 times to get rid of the bitterness. Please, read the paragragh where I explain how to do it :)

***If you don't have enough orange peels, you can use orange juice instead of milk, but 100g or orange peels give this cake a really nice orange flavor.

**** I collected my starter for several days and kept it in the fridge until I baked the cake