Fruit Salad and Mixed Veg

Choc Orange Cake


I like oranges. I like cake. I like chocolate.

I made this cake last night. It's VERY simple

You will need:
100g butter (or spread- I used spread)
2/3 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tablespoons of cocoa dissolved in 2 tablespoons of boiling water
zest of 1 orange
2/3 cup self-raising flour, sifted
2 tablsepoons of orangejuice (from the orange above)

What you need to do

• Preheat your oven to 180 degrees Celsius
  
• Grease a cake tin (around 20cm in diameter) and line the base with baking paper
  
• Cream the butter and sugar.
  
• Add the eggs and mix.
  
• Mix in the cocoa and orange zest.
  
• Mix in the flour and the orangejuice
  
• Place the mixture into the cake tin and bake it for 45 minutes
  
• Cool the cake in the tin.
  

You can make an orange icing for the cake if you want to. All you need is some icing sugar and orangejuice, heat it on the stove until it is at your desired thickness.

(The basic idea for this recipe was taken from 'Cake Bible' 2006, Penguin Books)


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