Chocolate and Orange Cake

Name: Chocolate and Orange Cake
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 8 oz/225 g drinking chocolate powder; 2 oz/56 g self-raising flour; 6 oz/170 g soft light brown sugar; 6 oz/170 g butter; 4 oz/112 g icing sugar, sieved; 4 oz/112 g butter, softened; Grated rind and juice of 1 orange; 4 large eggs; Grated rind of 1 orange; 2 oz/56 g butter; 2 oz/56 g granulated sugar; Juice of 1 orange; 2 tbsp water; 6 oz/170 g icing sugar; 1 oz/28 g cocoa powder

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

About

This is a really fudgy-textured cake, flavoured with orange, and with a chocolate fudge icing. It is very simple to make, but so good!

Ingredients

For the cake

6 oz/170 g butter
6 oz/170

Winter
Vegetarian
Cake

Method

Butter and flour two 8-inch/20-cm sandwich tins and line the base of each with a disc of non-stick baking parchment.

Cream the butter in a bowl, gradually adding the sugar. Beat really well until t