Easy Chocolate Orange Cake
Easy Chocolate Orange Cake - all in one chocolate cake moistened with orange juice with a crispy sugar topping.
Servings 12
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.