Name: Chocolate cake with chocolate orange cream cheese icing
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Bake
Ingredients: 500 ml cake flour; 375 ml castor sugar; 180 ml cocoa powder; 10 ml Bicarbonate of soda; 5 ml Baking powder; 2.5 ml salt; 250 ml buttermilk; 250 ml water lukewarm; 3 large eggs; 60 ml canola oil; 5 ml Vanilla essence; 2.5 ml orange essence; 60 g butter softened; 230 g cream cheese; 375 ml icing sugar; 60 ml cocoa powder; 5 ml orange essence; chocolate balls or chocolate curls; orange zest coated in a little castor sugar

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Ingredients (19)

For the chocolate cake

500 ml	cake flour
375 ml	castor sugar
180 ml	cocoa powder
10 ml	Bicarbonate of soda
5 ml	Baking powder
2.5 ml	salt
250 ml	buttermilk
250 ml	water — lukewarm
3	large eggs
60 ml	canola oil
5 ml	Vanilla essence
2.5 ml	orange essence

For the chocolate orange cream cheese icing

60 g	butter — softened
230 g	cream cheese
375 ml	icing sugar
60 ml	cocoa powder
5 ml	orange essence

To decorate

	chocolate balls — or chocolate curls
	orange zest — coated in a little castor sugar

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Method:

To make the chocolate cake

Preheat the oven to 180◦ C.

Spray two 20 cm in diameter cake pans with Cook ‘n Bake Non-stick Spray and line the base with baking paper.

Mix the flour, castor sugar, cocoa, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and salt together. Sift together twice.

Beat the buttermilk, water, eggs, oil and essences together until well combined. Add to the dry ingredients and mix together.

Divide between the 2 prepared pans. Bake for 35 – 40 minutes until a skewer inserted comes out clean.

Leave to cool slightly in the pan and then turn out on a wire rack and leave to cool completely.

To make the icing

Beat the butter and cream cheese together. Sift the icing sugar and cocoa together. Add to the cream cheese mixture together with the essence and beat until smooth.

Ice the cake with chocolate orange cream cheese icing and then decorate with chocolate balls and orange zest.