Chocolate chip and orange cake
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Plus cooling time before icing
- Easy
- Serves 10
A delightful, full flavoured cake for any time. Wonderful alternative to your usual tea-time sponge cake.
Ingredients
Sponge
- 200g caster sugar
- 200g softened butter
- 4 eggs (beaten)
- 200g self-raising flour
- 1tsp baking powder
- A dash of milk if mixture is stiff
- 100g milk chocolate chips
- 3 tsp orange essence
Icing
- 200g caster sugar
- 200g softened butter
- 4 eggs (beaten)
- 200g self-raising flour
- 1tsp baking powder
- A dash of milk if mixture is stiff
- 100g milk chocolate chips
- 3 tsp orange essence
- 50g butter
- 2tbsp milk
- 225g icing sugar
- 75g dark chocolate
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
- 2 tsp orange essence
Method
- STEP 1Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Grease a sandwich tin and line with non-stick baking paper. In a bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until you have a smooth, pale mixture.
- STEP 2Add the beaten eggs little by little before adding the flour, then baking powder and the stir in the chocolate chips and orange essence until combined.
- STEP 3Put you mixture into your tin and place into the oven for 25 mins until springs back when gently pressed or a skewer comes out clean. Place on a cooling rack and leave to cool for 20-30 mins.
- STEP 4For the icing, melt the butter chocolate and milk in a bowl over a pan of simmering water and then add the cocoa powder, icing sugar, 1 tbsp of hot water and orange essence and stir it all in. Then, with a palette knife gently spread on to the top of the cake. (To help you spread the icing easily, dip the palette knife in hot water first.
