Not a cake at all, tbh.

My friend Ben loves the English dessert Jaffa Cake, which you can’t really get here in the States. It’s a sponge cake with orange jelly and chocolate coating. Jelly is a bit outside of my skill set but I decided to do orange curd instead. I make lemon curd rather frequently but I might even like the orange curd more. Chocolate shavings completed the illusion.

Ben’s Chocolate with Orange Curd

1 ½ cups milk

1 ½ cups cream

½ cup sugar

1 vanilla bean

3 egg yolks

½ teaspoon salt

4 oz finely chopped bittersweet chocolate

For the curd

8 tablespoons butter

3 egg yolks

¾ cup sugar

¾ cup orange juice, strained

2 tablespoons cornstarch

¼ teaspoon salt

zest of one orange

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