How a Simple Orange Cake is Transformed to an Extravaganza
 
 
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Recipe type/ Τύπος Πιάτου: Dessert
Ingredients/ Συστατικά
  • 175 gr. / 6 oz. self-rising flour
  • 175 gr. / 6 oz. caster sugar
  • 175 gr. / 6 oz. melted butter
  • 5 tbsp milk
  • 2 medium eggs
  • The grated rind of 1 large orange
For the syrup
  • 150 gr. / 5 oz. caster sugar
  • Juice of two oranges
For the Chocolate Layer
  • 170 gr. / 6 oz. semi-sweet chocolate
  • 1 tsp honey
Instructions/ Εκτέλεση
  1. Preheat oven to 175° C / 345° F.
  2. Butter and flour a spring form with diameter 17cm / 6 in. or a round pan with the same diameter.
  3. In your mixer bowl place all ingredients starting from the dry and moving to the wet ones and mix until everything is incorporated.
  4. Pour the batter into the form and bake until a toothpick comes out clean about 40 minutes.
  5. About five minutes before the cake is done, put the caster sugar and the juice of the two oranges in a small pot and boil.
  6. When it starts to boil remove from fire and set aside.
  7. Take out of the oven the cake and make holes either with a toothpick or a skewer.
  8. Pour slowly the syrup and let the cake stay in the form until it is almost cold about 15 minutes.
  9. In the meantime and while the cake cools down melt the chocolate along with the honey in the microwave as follows:
  10. Break the chocolate in small pieces and add the honey in a glass bowl.
  11. Put in the microwave in high temperature for 30 seconds.
  12. Remove, stir and place it back for another 30 seconds.
  13. You follow this procedure until the chocolate is melted but must be as a lava and not very runny so as to spread it on the cake without dripping.
  14. Spread the chocolate on the cake covering it all and either serve immediately or you can wait until the chocolate becomes firm.
  15. In all cases it is super tasty!
Recipe by Culinary Flavors at https://www.culinaryflavors.gr/how-a-simple-orange-cake-is-transformed-to-an-extravaganza/