Sesame Spice Cake With Chocolate Orange Glaze

From: Michelle Berteig

On Aug 15, 2005

I made this cake for my mom's birthday, it was moist and delicious and everyone loved it! I used pecans instead of pistachios, sour cream instead of yogurt and pumpkin pie spice instead of the spices listed. I also made a simple glaze of powdered sugar and orange juice, as we didn't want anything chocolate. This is definitely a keeper!

From: tigerduck

On Jul 31, 2005

I really loved this cake, especially the glaze! I gave this a four star rating and would have given it five stars, if this wasn't a summer competition. For my Swiss tastebuds, spice cakes belong to the winter and not to the summer. Anyway, I had a critial test team and the overall verdict was three stars. Thank you for a great recipe. I might serve this cake again, however, only in the winter.

From: kokeshi doll

On Dec 8, 2007

I've always been frustrated with people who rate recipes and then proceed to tell how they changed it so that it doesn't even faintly resemble the original recipe! Well now, I've done it, but have to say in my defense that it is because I am vegan and needed to modify this recipe for my diet, but only omitted the dairy and eggs and used vegan substitutions. Everything else stayed the same. If you like spice cakes, you will love this one. My son-in-law said it tastes like autumn and could picture sitting out on the front porch on a cool fall evening with a cup of hot coffee and a big chunk of this cake. Amen. When I saw the unusual ingredient list for this cake I had to try it, and it turned out to have a unique, intriguing flavor. If you are vegan this is very veganizable and produces an outstanding cake. The changes: non-hydrogenated margarine instead of butter, 3 heaping tsps. ground flax seeds plus 1/3 c. orange juice instead of 3 eggs, 1 cup soft silken tofu instead of yogurt. The cake is dense and moist. Mine took closer to 55 minutes to bake than the 40 or 45 called for. Now, having said that I love this cake, I realize that pistachios and bittersweet chocolate are on the ingredient list, but I think walnuts or pecans would be more appropriate than pistachios, and a plain orange glaze better than chocolate. And having said that, I am so impressed with whoever came up with this cake because it is an ingenious combination of ingredients that I would never have thought of. Whatever kind of nut you use and whatever flavor of glaze, the cake is delicious. I can't wait to see what others think of it.

From: *Pixie*

On Jul 27, 2005

I absolutely love the glaze in this recipe and will probably steal it for use in other recipes! The orange-chocolate flavour is wonderful. It had me wishing I'd made extra to spoon over the slices of cake when serving. I used my microwave to make the glaze, took about two minutes and a good stir to thicken it. The cake was very good too, had a lovely colour and mild flavour that counter-pointed the chocolate well. Well done and good luck in the contest!