Chocolate orange cake

A while a go I made some yummy chocolate orange cupcakes. I liked the recipe so much I thought I would adapt it into a cake.
So the first step I made was doubling the original recipe.

Ingredients

230g (8oz) butter 

230g (8oz) caster sugar

230g (8oz) self raising flour

2 medium eggs

Zest of 1 orange 
2 tablespoons orange juice

The method is the same (see here) as the cupcakes however, this time I split the mix in a 8" sandwich tin.
While it was baking I made some orange butter cream so the cake wasn't overpowered by chocolate. I have got into a habit of just winging butter icing. I start by using two cups of soft butter then adding twice as much icing sugar. A little bit of orange juice and some zest of orange. Using an electric mixer on full power for 5 minutes adding icing sugar until I couldn't taste the butter anymore.

Once the cake was cool I added the butter icing.

Now for the topping. I had ready made chocolate icing already open so I used that and then I added canned mandarin orange to make it pretty. I chose canned as the segments looked nicer than cut up orange.

I took it to a BBQ and I'm pleased to say that it didn't last long. The photo below was after just 5 minutes.

Have you every adapted a cupcake recipe into a cake? Or if you have ever wanted that chocolate orange taste in a cake why not give it a go?

Happy baking,

Ms B

xx

Chocolate orange cupcake

My friends and I have started hosting a 'pub quiz' style night in each others houses and with all the fun, snacks and cloudy lemonade I thought it would be the perfect excuse to bake. I love to bake (if you haven't all ready figured that out) but what I like most is sharing my bakes with friends and family.

There have only been two 'quiz nights' so far but for the first one I make some cookies and used my cookie stamper, you can fine the post about it here.

This time I make chocolate orange cupcakes. I wanted to make these as the host for that night is a chocolate orange fan and I found a yummy recipe online which you can find here.

If you are new at baking there are lots of recipes online with different difficulty ratings and if you are a bit more confident you can adapt the recipes you find by adding your own touch. 

When I first make the cake mix it looked a bit runny but they turned out good. I baked them in my silicone cupcake cases which are a good investment if you bake a lot for your friends. 

This wasn't part of the recipe but I was tight for time so I used ready made chocolate icing then cup up some of the orange I used for the sponge mix and topped off the cupcakes.

 

I made sure I saved some for work the next day and they went down a treat! 

For a different look I sprinkled some green...sprinkles on top :D  

This was a very easy recipe and it was easy to adapt. I may try it again this weekend but make it as a layer cake! Why not give it a go?

Happy baking,

Ms B

xx