Melanie's Mineola Orange & Chocolate Cake

Melanie's Mineola Orange & Chocolate Cake

                                                                    Delicious!


Shopping List:

140 gr butter, soft
200 gr self-raising flour
1 and a 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
200 gr golden caster sugar
3 large eggs, free range please
6 tablespoons milk
Zest of 1 large Orange ( Mineola)


To drizzle and to drape

3 tablespoons orange juice from the Mineola
50 gr golden caster sugar

50 - 60 gr dark chocolate melted "au bain Marie"
@ least 39% cocoa solids



Preheat your oven to 180C. Grease or spray and line your loaf/cake tin. Use the all-in-one method for the cake ingrediënts, and beat it all together until it is light and fluffy. Pour it all in your prepared tin.

Bake this in your preheated oven for about 40-50 minutes until golden brown and your cakestester comes out clean. Whilst your cake is baking you can heat the orange/Mineola juice in a small saucepan with the sugar over a gentle heat. Stir until the sugar is dissolved.

When you take your cake out of the oven prick some small holes with your caketester so the juice can soak into your cake. Spoon the juice over the cake whilst still in the tin.

Leave to cool in the tin, turn it out and leave to cool completely on to your wire rack.

Melt the chocolate "au bain Marie" and drape and drizzle this over your cake.
Let the chocolate set before you cut it. An excellent Ladies Coffee Morning Idea!

                                                            "Enjoy"