Chocolate-orange cake

Preparation

1. Juice and zest the oranges
2. Sift all the dry ingredients into a bowl and gently stir together
3. Use a spoon to push 3 even spaced depressions in the dry mix
4. Add the oil to 1 depression, the orange juice into another and the essences & triple sec into the third
5. Add the eggs and orange zest on top of the mix
6. Blend the mix in a food processor on low-medium speed
7. Pour the mix into a medium cake tin (pre-greased)
8. Sprinkle the chocolate drops on top and stir into the top half of the cake with a spoon (they’ll sink while cooking)
9. Cook for 30-40 mins at 200°C
10. To check the cake is cooked push a knife into the top and withdraw – the knife should come out clean

Notes

Ingredients

• 400g plain flour
• 400g sugar
• 200g cocoa
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• ½ tsp salt
• 5 tbsp canola oil
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 1 tsp orange essence
• 2 large oranges
• 25ml triple sec
• 2 Eggs
• 100g chocolate chips

Equipment

• Cake tin
• Weighing scales
• Sieve
• Food processor

Nutritional Facts

• Serving size: 120.6g
• (16% / 21%)   Calories: 411kcal
• (22%)Total fat: 12g
• (18%)   Saturated fat: 3.5g
• (21%)   Unsaturated fat: 7.4g
•     Mono: 5.6g
•     Poly: 1.8g
• (14%)   Cholesterol: 41mg
•   Trans Fat: 0g
• (25%)Total carbohydrates: 76g
•   Starch: 0g
• (133%)   Sugars: 40g
•     Sucrose: 33g
•     Glucose: 0g
•     Maltose: 0g
•     Lactose: 0g
•     Fructose: 0g
•     Galactose: 0g
• (32%)   Fibre: 7.9g
• (18%)Protein: 9g
• Salts
• (8%)   Sodium: 165mg
• (11%)   Potassium: 369mg