Orange and chocolate pudding

 Christmas at Picardo's.

My shop is all geared up for Christmas.  Ours is a family run cake shop run by my brother Larsen and me After my graduation from Le cordon bleu, me and Larsen decided to start a cake shop . It’s been five years that we are in to this business in a suburb of Mumbai, Kanjurmarg.  I must say after all these years, its just not us but also my entire family and our staff  who have put in a lot of love and effort in successfully creating this shop. 

 

 Each of our products have been finalised after much trying and testing and I can proudly say that all our products are homemade from the breads used for our sandwiches to the pretty cake toppers for our cupcakes.  We at Picardo’s  emphasize a lot on flavour and serving the freshest in season, therefore as a rule we do not use any preservatives for our products.

This Christmas season also we have planned an entire Christmas specials using the fruits  in season . Come celebrate with us this season at Picardo’s or you can alternatively place your orders by calling on Mb no: 91-9833953320

 

Apple and ginger pie
Orange and chocolate pudding
Tangy lemon tart with white chocolate frosting
Pretty fairy cakes.
Rum Cake
Coconut Cake
Eggless banana walnut cake

From my entire Christmas  collection I have been most exited about  is the Chocolate and Orange Pudding .  This chocolate pudding I have baked inside  a Orange cavity making this simple chocolate pudding so awesome with its suttle orangey flavour  coming from chopped orange peel which I have added in the pudding and any which ways chocolate and orange have been a classic combination which never fails to impress

 

Ingredients for the pudding

6 big Malta Oranges
150 gms dark chocolate (I like using Cadbury Bournville)
50 gms butter
45gms Flour
15 gms good quality cocoa powder
75 gms of brown sugar
2 eggs
¼ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp baking soda
55 gms of candid orange peel (http://veena-cakesbakes.blogspot.in/2011/09/preserved-orange-peel.html
Method

·        Slice a upper roundel of orange and scoop out all the oranges make sure you retain the shape of the orange

·        Now cover take a square sheet of aluminium foil and cover the orange with the foil just keep the top open.  Arrange this on a baking tray.

·        For the chocolate pudding melt together butter and chocolate

·        Sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda

·        Mix chopped orange peel to the flour mixture

·        Add brown sugar to the chocolate and butter mix

·        After the mix has cooled down a little mix lightly beaten eggs.

·        Mix the dry and wet ingredients together

·        Now spoon this mix in the orange cavity. Take care not to fill it to the brim

·        Bake in a preheated oven at 170 degrees for 25-30 min

·        These puddings freeze very well .  Just pop it in a microwave before serving