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Easy Chocolate Orange Cake

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Easy Chocolate Orange Cake is made using the all-in-one method and is perfect for inexperienced bakers or kids to make! Yummy and moist, you’ll want to make this again and again.

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When I was at school the first all-in-one cake I ever made was called Lemon Crisp.

So I thought I would re-invent the cake today by adding cocoa and changing the lemon juice for orange juice to make Easy Chocolate Orange Cake.

After suffering the day from hell, having the car pebble dashed by a digger on a building site and then having the car dented by a runaway shopping trolley 2 minutes later, my children and I were happy to sit down with a cup of tea and a slice of cake at the end of a horrendous day!

Who says lightning doesn’t strike twice?

A friend of mine from Australia recently e-mailed me to say that my blog looked great but it was too bad that she couldn’t cook.  Well this one’s for you Julie, no skill required, just reading and whisking!

This cake would be the ideal cake for children to make for Father’s Day and would also be great for a school cake bake.  It stays really moist and  tastes just a good on day 3 as it does on day 1.

I never fail to get excited when I see a bowl of ingredients  like this ….

turn into this…

and after a sugar orange glaze, this.

After all the excitement of the day I forgot to cut the cake up into 3 rows of 4 slices for the photo but you could do it how you like!

More Easy Cake Recipes

I do hope you try my Easy Chocolate Orange Cake but for more easy cake inspiration you might like:

  • Easy Iced Lime Cake
  • Easy Ginger Avocado Cake with Lemon Drizzle
  • Vegan Banana Cake
  • Spelt Banana Bread
  • Spiced Apple & Ginger Cake
  • Birthday Cake (All-in-One Vanilla Sponge)

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Easy Chocolate Orange Cake

Easy Chocolate Orange Cake - all in one chocolate cake moistened with orange juice with a crispy sugar topping.
Course Snack
Cuisine British
Keyword cake, Chocolate, orange
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Servings 12
Author Camilla Hawkins

Ingredients

  • 175 g / 6oz Margarine or butter softened
  • 175 g / 6oz Caster sugar
  • 160 g Self-raising flour
  • 1 tsp Baking powder
  • 15 g Bourneville cocoa powder
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 tbsp milk
  • Orange sugar topping:
  • 50 g / 2oz Caster sugar
  • 2 dsp Orange juice freshly squeezed

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 180°C.
  • Grease and line a 23 x 23cm 9” x 9” baking tin.
  • Sift together the flour, cocoa and baking powder.
  • Add the rest of the ingredients and whisk for a couple of minutes with an electric mixer or 3 minutes with a whisk.
  • Bake for 40 minutes or until the cake is springy to the touch.
  • Allow the cake to cool in the tin for 5 minutes before transferring it to a wire rack.
  • Mix together the orange juice and caster sugar and spread over the top of the cake.
  • When the topping has set cut the cake into 12 slices.

Notes

For the original Lemon Crisp version use 175g self-raising flour and leave out the cocoa. Then for the topping use lemon juice instead of orange juice.

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  1. Renesh

    16/10/2014 at 8:23 pm

    good bake

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  2. Renesh

    16/10/2014 at 8:22 pm

    beautiful cake305

    Reply
  3. Renesh

    16/10/2014 at 8:21 pm

    beautiful cake to the little ones and the old ones

    Reply
  4. Abigail Cullen

    07/10/2014 at 4:43 pm

    This cake recipe looks great with the added bonus of being able to cut small individual pieces for a child’s party perhaps.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      08/10/2014 at 4:57 pm

      Yes, a good clean cake to give little ones:-)

      Reply
  5. William Gould

    10/09/2014 at 11:37 am

    I love recipes with “easy” in the title! lol

    Reply
  6. Florence Cross

    04/09/2014 at 11:35 am

    This would be perfect to make as an end of school week treat. Wonder who’s going to lick the bowl out on this one 🙂

    Reply
  7. Carolyn Clapham

    21/07/2014 at 7:48 am

    Sounds lovely and, as others have said, a great one to make with little ones.

    Reply
  8. Ursula Hunt

    24/04/2014 at 11:01 am

    Gorgeous with custard

    Reply
  9. Ursula Hunt

    04/03/2014 at 1:57 pm

    Easy enough to do with the grandchildren , thank you

    Reply
    • Camilla

      05/03/2014 at 4:39 pm

      Yes, very easy:-)

      Reply
  10. K Mayers

    23/01/2014 at 8:29 pm

    Love orange cake but can’t always get the kids to eat it – chocolate would do the trick! Perfect again 🙂

    Reply
    • Camilla

      24/01/2014 at 11:04 pm

      Thanks:-)

      Reply
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