Chocolate Orange Recipes For Christmas And Beyond

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.

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 Brownies

These chocolate orange brownies from Suelle at Mainly Baking are a good way to use up any Christmas chocolates that might still be lurking.

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 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?

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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