Chocolate Orange Cake Recipe

Chocolate Orange Cake

I've come across far too many people in this world who claim to dislike chocolate orange. Terry's Chocolate Oranges, the chocolate orange quality street, chocolate orange cookies, you name it and they hate it. 

All very bizarre, but it won't stop me baking with my favourite flavours.. one of the things being this chocolate orange cake! It's very easy and looks amazing with the chocolate orange segments on top. Please let me know if you've given it a go!

Cake Mixture

Adapted from Mary Berry's recipe
200g butter
4 eggs
200g caster sugar
200g flour
60g cocoa powder
6 tbsp boiling water
1 tsp vanilla essence

Chocolate Orange Ganache

150g dark chocolate
Zest of an orange
150ml double cream

Step 1:

Preheat oven to 180C or 160C for a fan oven.

Step 2:

Mix the butter, eggs, flour, vanilla essence and sugar in a large mixing bowl until combined.

Step 3:

Add your cocoa powder to the boiling water and mix until a smooth paste is formed, then add this to the mixture.

Step 4:

Pour into two sandwich cake tins and bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes.

Step 5:

Make the ganache by heating up your cream to almost boiling and then pour over the chocolate chunks. Stir until all the chocolate has melted and combined. You can use it for the middle of the cake as well, or do what I did and mix up a quick buttercream with more orange zest, butter and icing sugar.