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