Cakes

Chocolate Orange Heart Cake

Recipe Submitted By: bakingmad

This chocoholic pleasure to be baked especially for a loved one is the perfect Valentines cake for dessert on Valentines Day

75 ml	Sunflower Oil
75 ml	orange flavoured yoghurt
3 tbsp	orange marmalade
75 grams	Dark Muscovado (Billington's)
2	Happy Eggs
110 grams	Self Raising Flour (Allinson Nature Friendly)
1 tbsp	Cocoa Powder
1 tbsp	Bicarbonate Of Soda

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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.