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Tuesday, 3 January 2017

Spiced orange and chocolate cake



Ingredients

2                     clementines or satsumas
200g                self-raising flour
75g                  cocoa powder
3tsps               bicarbonate of soda
275g                caster sugar
225g                unsalted butter softened
4                      medium eggs
2tsp                 ground ginger
1tsp                 cinnamon
1tsp                 ground mixed spice
1                      clementine or satsuma zest
100g                good quality dark chocolate with orange or ginger or a mix of the two
                        chopped into small pieces

Method

1.     Cover the clementines or satsumas in boiling water in a small saucepan and simmer for 20 minutes until they are tender. Remove from the water and let them cool.
2.     Pre-heat the oven to Gas Mark 5 and grease your tin of choice. I used the Nordic Ware snowflake design with LOTS of cake release spray to get in all the nooks and crannies.
3.     Put the cooled fruit into a food processor and blitz until they are a fine pulp
4.     Add all the other ingredient to the processor and mix well until they are all well encorporated.
5.     Transfer the mixture to the greased tin. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until well risen and a skewer comes out clean from the deepest part of the tin. Depending on the tin you use, it may need a little longer baking.
6.     Cool for 5 minutes in the tin and then turn out, keeping fingers crossed it comes out to reveal the splendour of the tin design!


The cake can be eaten warm or cold, dusted with icing sugar with a large helping of extra thick double cream!

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