Seasonal, festive and if you’re very lucky you’ll find one in your Christmas stocking. Yes, I’m talking about oranges. Chocolate and orange is a well established flavour pairing and orange is also one of my favourite colours. The future’s bright, the future’s orange. The future are these many chocolate and orange recipes to inspire you for Christmas, this year and next.
Filled with seasonal good will one year, I tried to be kind with the We Should Cocoa Christmas challenge. It did the trick as we had thirty six recipes submitted from bloggers around the world. Chocolate and orange truly struck a chord, but I did have one (who shall remain nameless) raising their hands in horror at this hated combination!
This orange round-up is a real festive treat, even if the tasting has to be done virtually and I’m very happy to take the blame for encouraging all of these decedent creations.
Experience the zesty delight of citrus paired with the rich allure of chocolate in our collection of chocolate and orange recipes. From decadent orange-infused brownies to tangy chocolate-dipped orange slices, these creations will awaken your taste buds and brighten your day. Perfect inspiration for Christmas and the holidays too.
Chocolate and Orange Recipes for Christmas
If anyone is looking for a chocolate orange cake, look no further, cakes are far and away the most popular item and we have quite a variety to choose from. Luckily, there are a few other goodies such as truffles, desserts and cookies thrown into the mix, so you’re bound to find some chocolate and orange recipes to inspire you – at Christmas or any other time of the year.
Chocolate Orange Magic Cake
There’s no better place to start than with Angela’s chocolate orange magic cake. Why is it magic? Head over to Only Crumbs Remain to find out.
Candied Orange Peel Dipped In Chocolate
Homemade candied orange peel is delicious all by itself, but dip it in chocolate and it makes a perfect Christmas gift. Find the recipe candied orange peel dipped in chocolate from me at Tin and Thyme.
Vegan Chocolate Orange Cake
This vegan chocolate orange loaf cake is a first over at Curly’s Cooking and, hooray, it turned out perfectly.
Chocolate Orange Eton Mess
You’ve heard of Eton Mess made with strawberries, meringue and cream as an easy but delicious summer dessert? Well here is Dom’s festive take on it for those darker and gloomier months of the year – chocolate orange Eton Mess from Dom In The Kitchen. His secret ingredient? Marmalade.
Chocolate Orange Christmas Bundt Cake
And you can’t have Christmas without chocolate orange. Luckily this is a known known over at Caroline Makes, resulting in the last of our 15 New Year chocolate recipes, Chocolate Orange Christmas bund cake.
Chocolate Orange Xmas Cake Truffles
Given that Christmas is so hot in Australia, Jaxstar of Where the Wind Blows Me thought mini chocolate orange xmas cake truffles might be more tempting than a great big slice to eat. Knowing how full I was after Christmas dinner I think that would go down very well here in the UK too – even if it isn’t very warm.
Store Cupboard Chocolate Orange Cake
One of life’s certainties is that Nigella will out at Christmas time. Anna of At Anna’s Kitchen Table has thankfully not disabused me of this fact. She has baked Nigella’s storecupboard chocolate and orange cake. And I know from experience that this is a very good cake indeed.
Double Chocolate Orange Cupcakes
Dried orange slices look so stylish and they are put to good effect over at Only Crumbs Remain, decorating these elegant double chocolate orange cupcakes.
Chocolate Orange Truffles
What could be more tempting than truffles? Karen from Lavender and Lovage offered us these gorgeous chocolate orange cake truffles for day twelve of her advent calendar fest.
White Chocolate Chip Nonnettes
The love of French baking runs strongly in the veins of Phil from As Strong As Soup and it is France that has inspired these delicious nonnettes with white chocolate chips. I actually know these are delicious because I’ve just baked them – superb!
Chocolate Orange Cranberry Cookies
Using a bag of Chocolate Spice Puddles as inspiration, Baking Addict of The More Than Occasional Baker came up with these really pretty and enticing chocolate orange and cranberry cookies.
Chocolate Orange Muffins
Both festive and to celebrate her birthday, Jean of Baking in Franglais was organised enough to bake these rich chocolate orange muffins before going to work in the morning – impressive indeed!
Spicy Orange Brownies
Fudgy, rich and delicious spicy orange brownies from me at Tin and Thyme. Redolent of cozy winter fires with notes of festive spices, they’re bound to cheer on a cold wet day?
Chocolate Orange Banana Bread
Chocolate orange banana bread is the unusual combination brought to us by the Hungry Hinny. The addition of orange curd adds a note of lushness that I find particularly appealing.
Chocolate Orange Lebkuchen
Another first timer Fleur of Homemade by Fleur made these scrumptious chocolate covered orange lebkuchen all prettily packaged for her Christmas hampers.
Chocolate Orange Roulade
A perfectly rolled and lush looking chocolate orange roulade comes from Dom of Belleau Kitchen who is well on his way to world domination and is now out to impress Eric Lanlard.
Orange Cranberry Chocolate Muffins
Suelle of Mainly Baking was hoping to bake something else for WSC, but I was really taken with these orange cranberry and chocolate muffins with their use of oats and toasty topping.
Jaffa Cake Christmas Trees
Jaffa Cake Christmas Trees in true festive style is a WSC first entry from English Mum. With CT a huge Jaffa cake fan, I might have to hide this one or he’ll be clamouring for me to make it!
Chocolate Fig Fruitcake
I am truly shocked and horrified to find out that Johanna of Green Gourmet Giraffe is the ONLY one in her family to appreciate chocolate in her Christmas cake. With figs, prunes (orange of course) and lots of chocolate, this is my sort of fruit cake – chocolate and fig fruitcake.
Chocolate Orange Bundt Cakes
Now how cute are these mini chocolate and orange bundt cakes? Very I’d say. An early Christmas present for Kath of The Ordinary Cook was responsible for these beauties.
Chocolate Orange Cupcakes
Our 36 chocolate and orange recipes are progressing nicely. What’s next? Variations on orange and chocolate make up these divine sounding chocolate orange cupcakes from Laura of Laura Loves Cakes.
Triple Orange Chocolate Cake
I’ve made so many things with chocolate and orange this month, I wasn’t sure which one to submit to #WeShouldCocoa. In the end it was the shoes that convinced me and I went for this triple orange and chocolate cake.
Chocolate Orange Canada Cornstarch Cookies
A twist on a traditional favourite, these melt in the mouth chocolate orange Canada cornstarch shortbread cookies got a raised eyebrow when Michelle of Food, Football and a Baby presented them. Luckily they were enjoyed by all – it’s amazing what a bit of crystallised ginger can do!
Chocolate Orange Cookies
A warming and festive recipe that particularly appealed were these mugs of mulled hot chocolate with orange marshmallows by Matthew from Salty Plums. As if this wasn’t enough decadence he accompanied them with chocolate and orange cookies.
Orange Fudge With Chocolate Topping
Orange fudge topped with chocolate sounds wonderfully decedent. No wonder this chocolate orange fudge disappeared so quickly when Hannah from Corner Cottage Bakery made it just before Christmas.
Cream Cheese Chocolate Orange Cake
Now cream cheese in a cake sounds utterly intriguing and I want to go and try it out immediately – pretty much along with all the other entries – oh my! C of Cake, Crumbs and Cooking has adapted a Dan Lepard pound cake to come up with this lush looking cream cheese and chocolate orange cake.
Chocolate Orange Wreath
Just right for the lead up to Christmas, or Boxing Day or even New Year’s Day, this chocolate and orange wreath brought to us by The KitchenMaid looks highly festive.
Homemade Jaffa Cakes
Last week saw the return of the Great British Bake Off. The contestants were challenged to make Jaffa cakes and I’ve seen Jaffa cake bakes popping up all over the internet ever since. I reckon these homemade Jaffa cakes from Kat at Baking Explorer are the best I’ve seen.
Vegan Jaffa Cake
And finally, just to show that Jaffa Cakes don’t get it all their own way, Michelle from Utterly Scrummy Food for Families made one Giant Jaffa Cake. She also departed from tradition by making it vegan and why not?
Keep in Touch
And hear ends our collection of chocolate orange recipes for Christmas and beyond. We do hope you’ve found something you really want to make.
Thank you for visiting Tin and Thyme. If you make any of these chocolate and orange recipes, I’d love to hear about it in the comments below. Do you have any favourite recipes with this combination?
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For more Christmas chocolate recipe collections, try this one for festive chocolate recipes, this one for chocolate and date recipes, this one for cinnamon chocolate recipes or this one for boozy chocolate recipes.
If you’d like even more Christmas recipes, follow the link and you’ll find I have quite a lot of them. All delicious and nutritious, of course.
Choclette x
Louise - Comida y Vida says
what a great collection of recipes, defintely want to give some of them a go.
Sadly only thing I managed to do in Chocolate Orange was devour 2 of those round brown things in segments that are in my stocking every Christmas!! Has to be dark chocolate one though!
Phil in the Kitchen says
Great roundup. I’m deeply flattered that you made some nonnettes. Maybe we’ll start a trend and they’ll become the next big thing – I had some excellent raspberry nonnettes not long ago that I might try to bake at some point. Apologies for the delay in commenting – it was a nightmare Christmas of hospitals and viruses away from kitchens and computers.
cakeboule says
I have no idea how you manages to choose someone from that huge list. Wow is all I can say what an amazing load of talented people.
Motorcycle Cables says
Although cakes and cookies are amazing delicious. I think that you have shown holidays melt. I am curious for Chocolate recipes. I like to make although recipe as soon as possible.
The Caked Crusader says
They all look so amazing it’s a tough choice to pick what I want to eat first!
Hannah says
36 entries! That’s really impressive! Well done everyone, there are some really delicious things here.
Johanna GGG says
wonderful round up – yes my family are philistines when it comes to chocolate and fruit cake but all the more for me (though there were a few at work who would have willingly helped after sampling) – am off to browse and drool now
hungryhinny says
Another great round up, thanks Choclette! Several things I’m going to be bookmarking and making in the future. Looking forward to another year of WSC challenges!
freerangegirl says
Wow! I didn’t think I liked chocolate orange until reading this post now I may have to raid the kids stockings for theirs! I’m expecting to see you in the honours list for services to chocolate! Have a happy new year x
cityhippyfarmgirl says
Oh a big yum to all of them! I was too slow again, but I did think chocolate and orangey thoughts… does that count?
happy 2012 Choc 🙂
Chele says
Wow – what a lot of chocolate and orange combo’s there really are. Fantastic result for this month’s challenge, thanks so much to everyone for taking part.
Working london mummy says
wow what a wonderful wonderful set of recipes! will have to go visit the blogs x
C says
They all look great Choclette – thanks for doing the round up so we can all share what each other has made – it must have taken you ages!!!
Karen S Booth says
Brilliant and what a GREAT turn out for the Orange and Chocolate combo…..LOVELY recipes and photos, thanks!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Karen
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Unknown says
Yum , yum and yum! So litte time, so much beckons and jostles me for my time.Thanks so much for sharing these luscious-looking works of art!
Baking Addict says
Amazing round up! I never knew there were so many ways you could bake with chocolate and orange!! I want to try every single recipe!! Happy New Year and I look forward to another year of We Should Cocoa. x
Mari's World says
Oh My Goodness, I have died and gone to Heaven. A page with so many chocolate and orange recipes on, it was lovely to be a part of this and I’m looking forward to discovering January’s challenge and improving my standards!
Happy New Year
Janice says
Some lovely recipes there, great round up.
Susan's blog says
Lovely round up…such talented cooks too…not my thing as flavours go but in awe of all the goodies.
Happy new year everyone. xxx
Suelle says
Aren’t they a great looking bunch of chocolatey-orange treats? I’d happily eat any of them.
Kath says
Which one to dive head-first into first? They all look so delicious. Brilliant round up Choc, and Happy New Year xx
Brownieville Girl says
Fantastic round up – I want them all!!!!
Every best wish for 2012.
Foodycat says
I’m not a huge lover of chocolate and orange, but I would happily try all of these! And hog the box of the choc-dipped candied oranges.
Rolling Pin Claire says
Wow, they’re all amazing. Have bookmarked this page and there are a few recipes I want to try. Well done on the round up
MissCakeBaker says
Brilliant round up! There are so many inspiring recipes! Dom I think I might just make your roulade for my contribution to the buffet (love a buffet) for tonight’s party.
Dom at Belleau Kitchen says
wowzers!… aren’t we all just amazing!… wonderful round-up, you excelled yourself this month even though you did forget my original entry of Chocolate Orange Honey Buns… http://belleaukitchen.blogspot.com/2011/12/chocolate-orange-honey-buns-we-should.html…
….but of course I forgive you my darling and wish you a very happy and healthy New Year… see you in 2012 for more fun!!!!!