At last, a busy day in the coffee shop due, I think, to the lovely change in the weather. Actual heat in the sun, and people sitting out in the shop garden. Lots of happy smiley faces! The day goes so much more quickly and I managed lots of baking too.
An excellent offering for tea at home, which always goes down well in the shop, is a chocolate orange marble cake. Really easy to make, but you simply have to use good organic oranges. The zest is fantastic with lots of orangey oil and colour in the skin.
Chocolate sponge recipe
- 100g self-raising flour
- 100g sugar
- 100gs butter
- 2 large organic eggs
- 1 heaped tablespoon of cocoa powder
- 2 tablespoon of milk
- ½ tsp of vanilla essence
Put all the ingredients in a mixing bowl and mix well together.
Orange sponge recipe
- 100g self-raising flour
- 100g butter softened
- 2 large organic eggs
- 100g sugar
- 2 organic oranges, zest and juice
Mix ingredients all together.
Chocolate butter icing
- Chocolate
- 60g butter, softened
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
- 250g icing sugar
- 3 tablespoons milk
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
Blend together and beat until smooth.
Orange butter icing
- 60g butter, softened
- 300g icing sugar
- 3 tablespoons orange juice
- zest from 1 orange
Again, blend together and beat until smooth. You can always add more icing sugar if too soft, or more liquid if too stiff.
Method
Make two sponge mixes, one orange and one quite dark chocolate.
In a well greased cake tin lined with greaseproof dollop alternate heaps of chocolate then orange mixture. Take a large metal spoon and swirl, with a cutting action, the sponge. Don’t over do it.
Bake in a moderate oven gas mark 4 for 30 to 35 minutes. Do not over cook.
Once cool cut the sponge in half to give you two discs. Sandwich these back together with orange butter icing, not too much save the excesses for the top!
Decorate the top with 2 sorts of icing. chocolate butter cream and orange. again dollop on the icing one dollop chocolate then one orange and spread over cake in peaks not mixing them together too much. Sprinkle over some grated dark chocolate to finish.
Ice the cake, using swirly peaks of chocolate and orange icing.
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