Orange Cake with Chocolate Frosting

Lucky you, I am posting double today 🙂

This recipe for the cake is very malleable for variations. Instead orange juice, you can use milk or lemon juice or even yogurt. Also, instead of making white cake like the one I made today, you can replace 3 tablespoons of flour with the same amount of cacao, and you will have a chocolate cake… BE CREATIVE and EXPERIMENT.

Ingredients:

• 5 eggs
• 1/2 cup of softened butter
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla  essence
• 2 cups of granulated sugar
• 3 cups of all purpose flour
• 1 cup of orange juice
• 3 teaspoons of baking powder
• 1/2 cup of chocolate chips

Preparation:

• Preheat the oven at 180C.
• Grease a cake round tin, then sprinkle it with flour
• In a bowl, with an electric mixer, beat the eggs with the vanilla until pale
• Add the the sugar and mix until completely dissolve
• Now put the soft butter
• Alternate the flour and the orange juice, mix well until the batter is soft and creamy, at the end add the baking powder and the chocolate chips
• Put the mix in a cake tin and bake in the oven about 40 minutes. You know the cake is done when you insert a wood stick in it and it comes out dry
• After its done, remove it and leave it in the tin few minutes to settle and then turn it onto a rack to cool completely

In the meantime prepare the chocolate frosting.

Ingredients for the frosting:

• 1/2 cup of softened butter
• 1 cup of icing sugar
• 1 small teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 4 tablespoons of cacao

Preparation:

• Mix all the ingredients together until smooth and creamy, and spread it all over the cake

ET VOILA.. C’EST TOUT