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Orange and chocolate cake
Recipe by:
Sultanapple
I wanted to create a cake with the same sort of flavours as a jaffa cake. This is what I came up with!
Ready in 1 hour 10 mins
Saved by 5 cook(s)
Ingredients
Makes: 1 cake
- For the cake:
- 125g butter or margarine
- 175g sugar
- 2 eggs
- zest of 1 large, thick-skinned orange
- 100g dark chocolate chunks
- 175g self-raising flour
- 125ml milk
- For the syrup:
- 100g icing sugar
- juice of 1 large, juicy orange
- For the topping:
- 100g bar of good-quality dark chocolate
Preparation method
Prep: 25 mins | Cook: 45 mins1.
Pre-heat oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Grease and line a medium-sized cake tin or loaf tin.
2.
Cream the butter or margarine and sugar together well. Add the eggs, chocolate chunks and grated orange zest, and mix well.
3.
Sift the flour and fold it in gently, making sure it is well-mixed in, then add the milk and mix well. Spoon the mixture into the cake tin.
4.
Bake in the pre-heated oven for 45 minutes, or until golden brown and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
5.
To make the syrup: Mix the orange juice and icing sugar together well and heat in a small saucepan, until the sugar is dissolved.
6.
Remove cake from oven and immediately make lots of holes in it, all over, with a skewer, then pour the the orange-sugar syrup over it. Leave in tin to cool completely before removing.
7.
When cake is completely cooled, melt the chocolate (either in a bowl set over a pan of warm water, or carefully in a microwave on a low heat). Put into a piping bag and drizzle over the cake. Leave chocolate to set before slicing the cake.
Last updated:
02 May 2013
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