Chocolate Orange Cake

Another version of my Chocolate orange cake!mmmm

 For the recipe, see the link below:

Chocolate Orange Cake Recipe

The flowers are made by using the Russian ball nozzle, with orange and chocolate ganache frosting.

If you search youtube for Russian piping, there are some lovely demos on there, have fun!

Chocolate Orange Gateaux

This one, I've been waiting for all week! because the big one is for an order, Ive made a mini duplicate one, so I could cut into it, and eat some, of course!
The ingredients listed are for one 8" deep cake.

For the cake:

9oz SR Flour
1tsp Baking powder
2tbsp Cocoa Powder
8oz Margarine
8oz Castor Sugar
4 Eggs
2tbsp Milk

For the Frosting:

8oz Dark Chocolate
8oz Sour Cream

8oz Double Cream
4oz Mascarpone
1tbsp Icing Sugar
orange food colouring
Chocolate Orange Flavouring
Mini Chocolate Orange Segments

Make the cake:

Cream the margarine and sugar together until light and fluffy.
Add beaten eggs and milk a little at a time, adding a little flour if needed, to prevent curdling. (scrape down bowl).
Sift together flour, baking powder and cocoa, and fold into cake mixture.

Place cake mix into greased and lined 8" round cake tin, and bake on Gas 5, until risen, and centre springs back, also use skewer to test if middle is cooked.

When removed from oven, leave in tin for about 20mins before removing, and cooling on wire rack.

To make Chocolate Frosting:

Melt chocolate in bowl of pan of simmering water, remove bowl from heat, and beat in sour cream for 5 minutes, leave to cool (it will thicken),

Orange Frosting:

Whisk together double cream, mascarpone, icing sugar and 2tsp of flavouring, add enough orange food colouring till colour required.

To decorate:

When cake is cool, with large serrated knife cut into 3 slices horizontally.
In the inside layers spread orange frosting first, then chocolate ganache.
Cover cake completely with chocolate ganache and smooth sides with palette knife. and fluff up top.

Pipe rosettes on top and side as required, and place mini orange segments to finish.

Enjoy!

Chocolate Orange Cupcakes

Again, these cupcakes are delicious, takes a little more time with the colourings, but well worth it!


For cakes:

4oz Margarine
4oz Castor sugar
4oz SR Flour
2 Eggs (beaten with 2tbsp milk)
1tsp Baking powder

For frosting:

8oz Double cream
1tbsp Cocoa Powder
4oz Mascarpone
1 tbsp Icing sugar

Extras:

Chocolate Orange Flavouring
1tbsp Cocoa Powder
Orange Food Colouring
M&M,s


Make cakes by creaming softened margarine and sugar until light and fluffy.
Add beaten eggs a little at a time.
Fold in flour and baking powder.

Divide mixture into 2 bowls.
Mix cocoa with a little water to make paste and add some into one of the cake mixes.
In other bowl, add a few drops of flavouring and colouring until colour required.

Add a desert spoon of each coloured cake mix into 12 separate cupcake papers, and bake in oven, Gas 6, until risen and cake springs back when touched.

Cool on wire rack.

For frosting:
Whip double cream and mascarpone until creamy, add icing sugar, and whip until thick.

Divide into 2 bowls.

Add a little of the cocoa mix in one bowl, and flavouring/colouring into other bowl.

Put large star nozzle into piping bag, put chocolate frosting down one side of bag, and orange frosting down other side.
Pipe rosettes onto cupcakes and add chocolate or orange M&M on top.

Enjoy!