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Chocolate Orange Victoria Sponge

Ingredients
For sponge

• 4 medium eggs
• 225 g softened butter or margerine
• 225 g caster sugar
• 169 g self raising flour sifted
• 56 g cocoa powder sifted
• Juice of 1 orange

For filling

• Juice of 1 orange
• Tablespoon milk
• 100 g unsalted butter softened or margerine
• 225 g icing sugar

For decoration

• 8 squares cooking chocolate
• Orange zest from 1 orange

Instructions

1. Heat oven to 180 C / gas mark 4
2. Wipe inside 2 baking tins with margerine
3. Add flour and cocoa to bowl
4. Add sugar to bowl
5. Add butter to bowl
6. Add eggs to bowl
7. Add juice to bowl
8. Mix until mixture drops off beaters/spoon
9. Divide mixture evenly between 2 tins and level top
10. Bake for approx 25 minutes in centre of oven until ready
11. Allow to cool for 5 minutes in tin before carefully running knife around edge to release
12. Leave to finish cooling on wire rack
13. Beat butter in bowl until soft
14. Sift icing sugar over butter
15. Add juice
16. Add milk
17. Beat until ready
18. When cake cool spread icing on bottom cake before placing top cake
19. Melt chocolate as per packet instructions
20. Pour melted chocolate on top
21. Sprinkle orange zest on chocolate
22. Leave until chocolate sets
23. Enjoy!

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