Easy Terry's Chocolate Orange Cake

5 from 1 vote

Easy Terry's Chocolate Orange Cake

This Easy Terry's Chocolate Orange Cake is the perfect dessert for special occasions! Each sponge has rich chocolatey flavors and includes a hint of orange flavor. To finish this yummy cake add chocolate orange ganache between each layer and decorate it with Terry's Chocolate.

Prep Time10

Cook Time35

Total Time45

Course: cake, Dessert, Sweet Treat

Cuisine: British

Servings: people

Calories: 772kcal

Author: Jen Sim

Equipment

2 Mixing bowls
Electric or stand mixer
2 6 or 7" tins

Ingredients

300 g of unsalted butter
300 g caster sugar
300 g eggs
2 teaspoon orange extract
200 g flour self-raising flour
100 g cocoa powder
1.25 teaspoon baking powder
2-3 tablespoon of milk

Chocolate Ganache

350 g double cream
700 g milk chocolate
3-4 teaspoon of orange extract
Terry's chocolate

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 170C/340F/Gas mark 4. Grab a bowl and add self-raising flour, unprocessed cocoa powder, baking powder and whisk until well combined.
Next, beat the unsalted butter and caster sugar in a bowl for 5 minutes.
Then, crack the eggs open into a bowl, add 2 teaspoon of orange extract. Add one egg and whisk well until you can no longer see the egg. Repeat this process for the remaining eggs.
Add half of the flour mixture to the butter mix and gradually add the milk. Use a large spoon or hand-held whisk to mix all of the ingredients together. Repeat this step with the second half of the flour mixture until you get a silky cake batter. Do not overmix the batter, there should still be some lumps.
Grab 2 lightly greased 7" non-stick cake tins and use a spoon to add equal amounts of the cake batter to each tin. Place the tins in the oven on the middle shelf and bake for 30 minutes or until done. Stick a skewer into each cake and if the skewer comes out clean then the cakes are ready.
Leave to cool on a rack for 2 hours or until cool before you start decorating.
Once the cakes have cooled add chocolate orange ganache in between both cake layers, add more ganache to the top of the cake and decorate with Terry's chocolate.

Notes

Terry's Milk Chocolate Orange: 1632 Calories.
Room temperature: The butter, eggs and milk should be at room temperature for the best results with the recipe.
Batter: Do not overmix your cake batter. Mix just until combined. Overmixing can overwork the gluten in the flour leading to tough cakes as opposed to light, soft airy cakes.
Baking: The cakes should be baked on the middle shelf of the oven. Most ovens' heat circulation tends to be best on the middle shelf, which means your cakes will be baked evenly.

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