Ingredients
175g/ Self Raising Flour
175g/ Caster Sugar
175g/ Flora or similar
1 Tablesp Baking Powder
3 Eggs (beaten)
2 Tablesp Milk
Grated Rind of 2 Oranges
½ teasp Vanilla Extract
Method
Heat oven to 180C/Gas4/350F
Place everything above into a mixing bowl and whisk for no more than 2 minutes.
Pour into a greased or lined loaf tin
Bake for approx 40-60 mins, or when your skewer comes out clean
Topping
120g Caster Sugar
Juice of the two Oranges
Mix the sugar with the juice of the oranges and heat in pan until it forms a syrup. Make holes in the warm cake and pour syrup over it.
An alternative topping is a whisked carton of Double or Whipping Cream, spread on top of the cake and cover with a broken flake or chocolate chip pieces or like my picture below cover with fruit and finish with a large spoon of creme fresch.
That sounds awesome!
Especially when it’s just a tad warm, yum, yum. I brought some to Dad and we had it after dinner tonight !!!! 🙂
Now thats an interesting combination.
It’s raaaather tasty :):) but very calorific 🙂
There doesn’t appear to be any chocolate in the ingredients for your chocolate cake?? I’m guessing you add some cocoa and possibly some broken chocolate pieces to the cake batter.
lol, :))your comment really made me laugh Nigel :)I can’t believe I forgot to add the cocoa in the ingredients and your the first one to spot it. Thanks for that :)) I assure you its lovely with cocoa.
I replaced 25g of the flour with cocoa powder and added about 50g of roughly chopped plain chocolate, and, yes, it is delicious. I’m also going to try a dash of Cointreau and maybe an orange flavoured cream cheese topping to jazz it up a bit for a party cake.
Ohh, Nigel, that sounds deeeelicious – why not do a guest post on my blog with your take on the recipe with all the additional ingredients ?