Orange Cake with Chocolate coating

Orange Cake with Chocolate coating

By Christine and Mary Theodoropoulou

A’ Class

Ingredients

250 grams of butter or margarine in room temperature

500 grams self-raising flour

3 eggs

2 vanilla tubes

2 cups of sugar

1 cup orange juice

zest of one orange

For the coating

2 bars (200 grams) dark chocolate

some milk

5-6 fresh cherries

Method

In a bowl put the butter, the sugar, the vanilla and the orange zest and whisk for 10 minutes with a hand mixer.

Then add the eggs and whisk again until light and frothy. Slowly pour in the orange juice and continue to whisk. Finally add the flour in small quantities each time. Spread a cake tin with butter and pour in the mixture. Bake in a preheated oven at 200C for 50 minutes. In a saucepan melt the chocolate with some milk on low heat and when the cake is ready cover with the chocolate and garnish with cherries.