Hot chocolate orange cake

Indeedy, I wasn't initially going to post this recipe as I felt like I could have made it better, however Jim said he liked it! Wahey, success :D

Side note: I pinched the base recipe from here and then modified it as I went along.

Hot chocolate orange cake.
Ingredients
+ 75g butter or margarine
+ 100g golden caster sugar
+ 1 orange, juice and zest
+ 2 eggs, beaten
+ 150g self raising flour
+ 50g hot chocolate powder
+ 1 medium sized bar of choccy :)
+ Pinch of cinnamon
+ 1 tbsp milk (I might change this as I think it made the mix too runny)

Method

+ Weigh out the butter and the sugar, pop that in a mixing bowl and, using a wooden spoon, give it a damn good beating until the mixture goes all smooshy looking and fluffy and whatnot.

+ Grab your orange, grate all the outside until the orange essentially looks just white. Then squeeze out your juice (lack of equipment might leave you with sticky hands as it did for me!) Pop all of that citrus-y goodness into your mixing bowl and give it a swirl around.

+ In a separate bowl, quickly beat your 2 eggs, add in the cinnamon and chuck that into your mixing bowl and give it another whip around.

+ Weigh out your dry ingredients and add it in bit by bit. Make sure you keep mixing your dry ingredients in. The mixture then did seem to go quite stiff for me which is why I added milk, although my cooking time seemed off because of it so maybe I would try without next time.

+ Chop up your chocolate and mix that in.

Bake at around 160 for 30 mins.

The original recipe calls for 180 but I found the outside was cooking far faster than the inside so I turned it down.

Et viola:

The top even felt nice and sticky, like an orange should :D

Goodtimes!

xxx