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Chocolate Orange Heart Cake
Recipe Submitted By: bakingmad
Chocoholic pleasure to bake for a loved one.
| Preparation Time | 25 minutes |
|---|---|
| Baking Time | 40 minutes |
| Portions | 8 |
| Skill Level | Medium |
| Average Rating | ![]() |
Ingredients
| 75 ml | Sunflower Oil | |
| 75 ml | Orange flavoured yoghurt | |
| 3 tbsp | Orange marmalade | |
| 75 grams | Billington's Dark Muscovado | ![]() |
| 2 | Eggs | |
| 110 grams | Allinson Nature Friendly Self Raising Flour | ![]() |
| 1 tbsp | Cocoa powder | |
| 1 tbsp | Bicarbonate of soda |
Additional Ingredients
| 175 ml | Double Cream | |
| 175 grams | Plain Chocolate | |
| 1 | Orange Peel to decorate |
Method
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- Beat together the oil, yoghurt, marmalade, sugar and eggs in a large bowl.
- Sift together the dry ingredients and stir into the cake mixture.
- Spoon into a greased lined 15cm heart shaped or round deep cake tin.
- Bake for 30-40 minutes 170°C/fan 160 °C/ gas mark 3.
- Cool in the tin for 10 minutes then turn out on to a wire rack to become cold.
- Bring the cream to the boil in a pan.
- Add the chocolate and remove from the heat.
- Stir until smooth and cool for 5 minutes.
- Whisk the ganache until glossy and beginning to thicken.
- Pour over the cake and spread with a palette knife over the sides.
- Leave to set but don’t put the cake in the fridge or the ganache will become dull.
- Decorate with strips of candied orange peel.
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