Posted by: Mrs.Pogle | April 28, 2009

chocolate-orange cake

I made this on Sunday. It’s not a flavour I have made before, so was really an experiment, but it turned out just fine, and has the right mix of chocolate and orange, in fact it tastes like one of these…

Basically, it’s an ordinary chocolate sponge recipe with the zest of an orange and half the juice added ~ don’t make the chocolate too rich, or the orange flavour will not come through. I just added a tablespoon of cocoa powder and one of Cadburys drinking chocolate powder to the mix. The buttercream is icing sugar, Cadburys hot chocolate powder and margarine, with some real orange essence added, which gives it a real intensity without adding too much liquid. The little orange jelly slices add colour and also taste nice and orangey! It is one I will definitely make again :D


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  1. this looks great. ilove the jelly slices you added .. adds alot of color

    thanks

  2. No way! What a coincidence! I have a large bag of oranges I need to use, and I was just thinking of making an orange cake… but I never thought of making a chocolate orange cake! Brilliant!
    I’m gonna try it!

    Orange chicken on the menu tonight, too!

  3. I often make an orange and lemon cake, like this one here: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/228/504629109_5983e2691f.jpg
    :)

  4. Looks fabulous!!


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