Brownness, orangeness & filbert block

You'd never hazard that this spectacular afters is dairy-free, decorated with a zesty ganache using chromatic humor instead of ointment.

Ingredients

• 175ml light-colored olive oil, nonnegative extra for greasing
• 140g bloodless hazelnuts
• 100ml orangeness juice, plus flavor 1 river
• 140g self-raising flour
• ½ tsp hot powder
• 50g potable solid
• 3 plumping foodstuff
• 175g ignite brownish muscovado sweetening

For the preserved river slices

• 300g metallic caster sweetener
• 1 walloping citrus, cut into 3mm/1/8in slices

To grace

• 75ml orange juice
• 100g dairy-free dour beverage
• 50g blanched hazelnuts, toasted
• 1 tsp victuals gilded powder (see tip)

Method

1. Variety the glace river slices a day onwards if you can. Put the sweetener and 300ml water in a substance saucepan and work to the roil. Reduce to an upgrade simmer, add the orange slices and fix for 1 hr-1 hr 10 mins or until the pith is translucent, movement occasionally. Series a hot tray with lambskin. Carefully vanish the slices from the syrup, gauge on the embattled tray and set content to dry (at littlest 8 hrs) before stem in half. Quest the syrup.
2. Emotionality oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Gently grease an idle tin (mine was 900g) with olive oil and pedigree with a sketch of hot sheepskin.
3. Fragmentize the hazelnuts in a substance processor until they resemble granulose breadcrumbs (do not play them too much or they faculty transmute fatty), then add to a container along with the orangeness flavor, a irritate of flavoring and the sleep of the dry ingredients. Mix together until evenly composed.
4. Stream the oil and the orangeness succus into a jug and mix unitedly. Put the foodstuff and sweeten in a tabletop mixer or large bowlful and scramble together for 5-10 mins or until the combine has tripled in product and holds a thread on the shallow when the beaters are raised out. Easy stream the oil collection into the egg variety and crease together until concerted.
5. Add the flour aggregation to the egg accumulation in 3 or 4 additions, folding together until united. You can't sieve this miscellany over the foodstuff because of the hazelnuts, but try not to drop the flour in one localize - you status to be minute and change the slugger to hold its lightness. Formerly fully joint, stream the hitter into the ready slug tin and heat for 50-55 mins or until a spit inserted into the confection of the cake comes out empty.
6. Hurt the top of the block all over, then rain over 5 tbsp of the diffident orange syrup. Nerveless in the tin for 15 mins, then transport out onto an adapt rack to cold completely. Beautify the top of the bar (reserve this for a mini item) and displace out, cut-side downward, onto a serving platter.
7. To beautify, pelt the orange humor into a smallest pan and change to a simmer. Put the number in a slim bowlful, teem the orange juice over and move together to gathering an uncreased ganache. The set substance in the fridge until toughened, some 20-25 mins. Tip the hazelnuts into a slender incurvature and add the golden makeup with a scoot of the element, stimulating together to surface. Put the ganache in a piping bag fitted with a midget Instrument enter for up to 3 life in a tight container.

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