Chocolate-Orange Cake

It has been a while since I wrote in my blog. I have been very busy, still I am, but I thought it was about time to give an update on how things are going and also add a new recipe!

Well the summer has fully arrived to The Netherlands, we had no spring unfortunately. Oh well I shouldn’t complain now is nice and that is what it counts. The last few weeks we had already barbecue a couple of times, we are having dinner in our garden almost every day and we are enjoying summer food as well.

Last weekend we went to visit our friends that live about 140 km from our house. I made a nice chocolate-orange cake to bring with us and that was absolutely a good idea, you should try this at home!

The ingredients you need for a cake from about 20 cm diameter:

• 175 gr. caster sugar
• 175 gr. butter
• 3 eggs
• 175 gr. self risen flour
• 2 tablespoons cacao powder
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 3 tablespoons orange juice
• Zest of half orange

First of all using a mixer, mix the sugar and butter until very light and smooth, then add with the machine still working one beaten egg at the time, wait until is well mix before you add the next egg, after that sieve the flour in the bowl and scoop slowly until is well combine.

Divide the dough in two, one of the parts mix with the cacao and the milk, the other part mix with the orange juice and the orange zest.

Put first the chocolate dough into the grease baking tin, then the orange dough, using a knife stir a bit to give a mix color to the cake. Bake for about 25 minutes in a 190 degrees preheated oven. When ready leave it for about 5 minutes in the tin before you take out and then put in roaster to cool down completely.

Of course this cake needs a glace, very easy to prepare. You just need 175 gr. glazing sugar and about 2 tablespoons of orange juice. Sieve first the sugar, then add orange juice while mixing, don’t make it too wet otherwise it will be to runny. Spread the glace on the top of the cake, wait until is hard and then you can decorate with some melted chocolate, like on the picture below.