Oven-Steamed Chocolate Cake with Sake Apple from The Sushi Experience by Hiroko Shimbo

Ingredients

• Juice from 1 lemon
• 1 cup sugar
• ¼ cup bitter orange marmalade, smooth
• ¼ cup orange liqueur
• ¾ teaspoon salt
• 12 ounces bittersweet chocolate, broken into rough pieces
• ½ cup joshinko (rice flour)
• 1 cup cake flour
• 3 cups sake (rice wine)
• 6 cloves
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 6 large tart/sweet-flavored apples, peeled, cored, and cut into small pieces
• 2 star anise
• 6 large eggs, separated
• ⅓ cup sugar