Sticky Chocolate and Orange Cake by Phil Vickery
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Ingredients
Like the famous chocolate orange - but in cake form!
- 2 RSPCA Assured labelled eggs
- 175g unsalted butter
- 175g caster sugar
- 115g self raising flour
- 3 tbsp cocoa powder
- Zest of 2 oranges
- Juice of 1 orange
- 3 tbsp icing sugar
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180°C, fan oven 160°C, gas 4. Cream the butter and caster sugar together until pale, light and fluffy, then gradually beat in 2 eggs.
- Fold in the self raising flour and cocoa powder into the mixture, then stir in 4 tbsp water and the finely grated zest of 1 orange. Pour mixture into a lined 900g/2lb loaf tin and bake as above.
- Meanwhile, remove the zest of 1 orange using a zester and blanch in three changes of boiling water. Squeeze the juice of the orange into a pan, add 3 tbsp icing sugar and heat until the sugar has dissolved, then add the blanched orange zest and simmer for 3 minutes. Prick the surface of the cooked sponge, pour over the hot syrup and leave to cool.
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