This is one of my favourite cakes to bake and eat so I was gobsmacked that I hadn’t blogged it already. I searched my blog twice, convinced that I must have already shared such a fab cake with everyone but I hadn’t. MAJOR oversight.
I used a recipe is called ‘Anna Encel’s Wonderful Babka’ in a fav cookbook of mine called ’50 Fabulous Chocolate Cakes’ that gets a major workout in my kitchen.
Like I tend to do I reduced the amount of sugar by half a cup. The original recipe called for 3 tablespoons of drinking chocolate which I changed to melted chocolate. I normally use 100grams of dark chocolate but this time I broke up one of the many milk chocolate Easter bunnies that my girls got for Easter and used that instead. Shhh, don’t say a word….
Gather:
250g butter, melted
3 large eggs
2 ½ cups self-raising flour
1 cup caster sugar
100g melted dark chocolate
1 ½ cups orange juice
½ tsp orange liqueur [optional]
Let’s get to it:
Preheat oven to 180C and thoroughly grease a bundt tin, ensuring you get into all the crevices.
Put all the ingredients except the melted chocolate into the bowl of an electric mixer and beat until well combined.
Pour one half of the mix into the bundt tin then dollop in the melted chocolate. Cover with the remaining batter
Bake 40-ish minutes [depending on your oven you may need another 5 or so minutes]
Allow to cool in tin for about 30 minutes before tipping onto wire rack.
the hungry mum 