chocolate orange cake
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Weekly Cake Recipe Rich Chocolate Orange Cake

Forestwood

One Cake A Week

Do Chocolate Cakes in your house disappear all too quickly?

Then your household will love this Chocolate Orange cake. It has the flavour of Chocolate with a hint of orange juice goodness. Better than chocolate!

Chocolate Orange Cake Recipe

Ingredients

  • 125g butter (softened)
  • 1 tablespoon orange zest
  • 1 3/4 cups Self Raising Flour (equivalent to plain flour with 3 teaspoons of Baking powder added)
  • 1 1/3 cup castor or fine white sugar
  • 1/2 cup cocoa
  • 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • 1/2 cup Orange Juice
  • 1/4 cup water

Method

  1. Preheat Oven 180 Celsius or 375 Fahrenheit.
  2. Grease and flour a 20 cm/8 inch bundt or round cake pan.
  3. Combine all ingredients in an electric mixer adding wet ingredients last.
  4. Beat on low speed until all ingredients are combined.
  5. Increase mixer speed to medium and beat for 3 minutes or until the cake mixture changes colour and is smooth.
  6. Pour into the prepared pan and bake for 50 – 60 minutes.
  7. Leave stand for 5 minutes before turning out.
  8. Dust generously with icing sugar before serving.
  9. Optional: Ice with Choc Orange frosting, if desired.

Chocolate Orange Frosting

  • 60 grams or 4 tablespoons soft Butter
  • 1 tablespoon grated Orange rind
  • 1 1/2 cup Icing Sugar
  • 2 Tablespoons Milk
  • 1 Tablespoon Cocoa

To Make Frosting:

  1. Beat butter and rind in small mixer bowl until light and fluffy.
  2. Add icing sugar and milk gradually.
  3. Divide frosting mixture in half, stir sifted cocoa into one half and mix well.
  4. Top cake with spoonfuls of orange and chocolate iceing.
  5. Swirl icing with knife to give a marbled effect.

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20 thoughts on “Weekly Cake Recipe Rich Chocolate Orange Cake”

      2. Oh that is a really fantastic idea. I think the flavours of orange and pumpkin would work really well together – plus there is the boost of Vitamin C as well. Definitely not culinary blasphemy. Perhaps I am thinking this because they are both orange. I have after all, added turmeric to my pumpkin soup in the past. Have you tried that, Leena?

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