Name: Devil’s food cake with orange frosting
Total time: 2 h 30 min
Yield: Serves 10
Ingredients: 100g light muscovado sugar; 150g golden caster sugar; 50g cocoa; 225g self-raising flour; ½ tsp baking powder; 2 eggs; 125ml rapeseed or grapeseed oil; 2 oranges both zested and 1 juiced; 50g dark chocolate melted and cooled; 250g butter; 500g icing sugar; 2 oranges both zested and 1 juiced

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Devil’s food cake with orange frosting

Devil’s food cake with orange frosting

Published: March 25, 2015 at 3:05 PM

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Serves 10

A little effort

Total time: 2 hrs and 30 mins

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This version of devil’s food cake is made with oil rather than butter, and has orange added to the flavour. It’s a cake that cuts neatly and works well as a base for all sorts of icing.

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Ingredients

Nutrition

100g light muscovado sugar
150g golden caster sugar
50g cocoa
225g self-raising flour
½ tsp baking powder
2 eggs
125ml rapeseed or grapeseed oil
2 oranges

both zested and 1 juiced
50g dark chocolate

melted and cooled

ICING

250g butter
500g icing sugar
2 oranges

both zested and 1 juiced

Nutrition: per serving

kcal733
fat37.7g
carbs94.6g
fibre2.4g
protein4.8g
salt0.8g

Method

step 1

Heat the oven to 160c/fan 140/gas 3. oil and line 2 × 20cm springform cake tins. put the sugars in the bowl of a mixer and sift over the cocoa, flour and baking powder. mix the eggs with the oil and orange zest in a jug and add the mix to the bowl and beat a couple of times. put the orange juice in the jug and add enough water to make 250ml, add this to the bowl.
step 2

Beat the ingredients slowly to mix everything together then add the melted chocolate. beat for 3 minutes until the mixture is smooth, it should be runnier than a normal cake mix. scoop the mixture into the cake tins, dividing it as equally as you can and level the tops.
step 3

Bake for 30 minutes or until the cakes are cooked through, test them with a skewer, it should come out clean. cool for 10 minutes in the tins and then tip out onto a wire rack.
step 4

To make the frosting, beat the butter until it is really soft, beat in the icing sugar a little at a time. add the orange zest and a splash of juice and beat until the frosting is fluffy. sandwich the cakes together with some frosting then frost the outside of the cake.

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