Chocolate Orange Cake

Ingredients:

▪Plain flour 1 & 1/2 cup

(Maida)

▪unsweetened Cocoa powder 1/2 cup

▪Baking powder 2 tsp

Salt 1/4 tsp

▪Fresh Orange juice 1 cup (200 ml)

▪Icing sugar 1 & 1/2 cup

▪Eggs 3 pecs (at room temperature)

▪Vanilla essence  1 tsp

▪Oil 1/2 cup (100 ml)

▪Orange zest 1 tsp

▪Hot water 4 tbsp

Choco Orange ganache:-

▪Orange juice 1 cup

▪Sugar 5 tbsp

▪Unsweetened dark chocolate 4 tbsp

▪Milk chocolate  6 tbsp

▪Whipping Cream 1/2 cup

Method:

▪︎sieve the flour,cocoa powder, baking powder, salt and set aside.

▪︎Add eggs and sugar in another bowl .whisk it for 5 to 7 min.

▪︎Add vanilla essence and oil and mix it well.

▪︎Now add fresh orange juice and mix it .

▪︎After that, gradually add flour mixture in it.

Now add grated orange zest and hot water and mix it well.

▪︎Pour the batter into the greased pan with butter paper.Pan size is 9 inch and 23 cm.

▪︎Bake in a preheated oven at 180°c for 35 to 45 mins. 

Chocolate orange ganache:-

▪︎Put orange juice and sugar in a pan. cook until orange juice reduces to half on low to medium flame.

▪︎Make double boiler by adding water in steel pan and putting heat resistant glass pan over it. Now add whipping cream to warm them and don’t bring it to boil.

▪︎Add unsweetened dark chocolate & milk chocolate and mix it well.

▪︎Add orange juice mixture in it and mix it well. let it cool down. Now ganache is ready.

▪︎Spread it in to cool cake and decorate with orange slice.