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Easy
1 Hour
Diets 
This is a beautiful and delicious addition to any cake platter and can also serve as dessert. Whoever tasted it had at least two pieces! When I was developing this recipe, I had too many oranges in the house (as it was still during shemittah, when you end up with a lot of whatever’s available!), and I decided to incorporate the flavor into a chocolate cake and into the glaze as well. Although it’s a favorite combo of mine, I realized that everyone has their own preferred flavor undertones to a chocolate cake, so the note below offers many other options. Freezes beautifully, too. Yields 2 dozen squares
3/4 cup oil
scant 3/4 cup sugar
full 1/2 cup light brown sugar
3 large eggs
1 and 3/4 cups whole-wheat pastry flour such as Shibolim White Whole-Wheat or white spelt flour (or regular white flour)
scant 3/4 cup Gefen Cocoa or other good-quality cocoa
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
zest of 1/2 orange
1/2 cup freshly squeezed orange juice (juice of 1 orange)
3 tablespoons Montell or other orange liqueur + soy milk to equal 1 cup
2 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons Gefen Cocoa
1 and 1/4 cups confectioners’ sugar
3 tablespoons freshly squeezed orange juice
1 teaspoon Montell or other orange liqueur
espresso chocolate, chunked, for garnish (optional)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (175 degrees Celsius). Line a 9×13-inch (23×33-centimeter) baking pan with Gefen Parchment Paper and set aside.
In the bowl of a mixer, place oil and sugars and mix together. Add eggs and beat for two minutes until thick and creamy. Add dry ingredients alternating with wet ingredients, and mix on low speed until well combined.
Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 30–35 minutes or until set. Cool on a cooling rack. Cut into 24 squares. (I like to cut into squares before frosting so you can easily remove a square at a time without messing up the glaze.) Glaze when cooled.
Place all ingredients besides chocolate chunks in a small bowl and stir together with a whisk until shiny and smooth. Adjust liquid and/or confectioners’ sugar if necessary.
Pour over cake and spread evenly with a spatula. Garnish with espresso chocolate chunks if desired.
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