As if one teenager in the house wasn't enough, I'm now officially the parent of two teenagers. A birthday always calls for cake, and as for most of the birthdays that fall midweek there were two cakes - one for a weekend party and one on the actual day of the birthday. This chocolate orange cake was made for a birthday sleepover, and shared amongst friends and family.
I originally intended to serve the cake after dinner on Saturday night, but as I'd left the husband to feed the girls whilst I took the eldest to A&E for a suspected broken ankle (still no firm diagnosis on that), we enjoyed it for a late Sunday morning breakfast instead - got to love cake for breakfast!
Chocolate Orange Cake
100ml coffee
35g cocoa powder
190g caster sugar
1 egg
60ml vegetable oil
125ml milk
115g plain flour
3/4 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
filling
1 pack of orange jelly
250g butter, softened
500g icing sugar, sifted
4tbsp room temperature water
150g good quality milk chocolate, melted
to decorate
1 box of Lindt Lindor orange truffles
jaffa cakes (I used 13, which was just over 1 box)
- Beat together the coffee, cocoa powder and sugar until smooth
- Beat in the egg, oil and milk
- Sift together the flour, baking powder & bicarb of soda
- Add the dry ingredients into the wet and mix well
- Divide the mixture between two greased & lined 8" tins
- Bake in a preheated 180C oven for approx 20 minutes
- Allow to cool in the tins for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely
- Make the jelly up with half a pint of boiling water
- Pour into an 8" cake tin lined with clingfilm & place in the fridge/freezer until set
- Beat together the butter & icing sugar
- Add the water and beat until light and fluffy
- Beat in the melted chocolate until fully combined
- Lay one cooled sponge onto a plate & spread a little buttercream on top
- Place the set jelly on top
- Spread a little buttercream over the flat side of the other sponge and place on top of the jelly
- Spread the remaining buttercream over the top and sides
- Decorate with Lindt chocolate orange truffles & jaffa cakes
I was sent some Lindt Lindor orange truffles free of charge
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