Chocolate and Orange Fairy Cakes
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
-
24
ingredients
- 170 g butter
- 170 g caster sugar
- 3 eggs
- 170 g self-raising flour
- 85 g chocolate (drops)
- 2 oranges, juice and zest of
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Orange icing
- 110 g icing sugar, sifted
- 1 orange, juice and zest of
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Chocolate icing
- 200 g chocolate, chopped
- 50 ml milk
directions
- Preheat oven to 190°C.
- Line 2 muffin pans (12 hole) with paper cases.
- Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Mix eggs together in a separate bowl and gradually beat into creamed mixture a little at a time, adding 1 tablespoon of flour if the mixture begins to curdle.
- Stir in chocolate and orange zest.
- Fold in flour, adding orange juice to bring mixture to a dropping consistency.
- Divide mixture between cases so each is two-thirds full.
- Bake in middle of oven for about 20 minutes or until the cakes are well risen, golden and feel spongy to fingertips.
- Cool on a wire rack.
- Make icing.
- Orange: Place icing sugar and orange zest in a bowl, add enough orange juice to mix to a fairly stiff consistency.
- Icing should hold a trail when dropped from a spoon but gradually find its own level.
- It needs little liquid.
- Chocolate: Melt chocolate and milk together.
- (I use a microwave oven for this- take care, chocolate burns easily.) Stir well to mix.
- Ice cakes with orange icing and swirl the chocolate on top.
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