Chocolate & orange zest bundt cake with chocolate orange drizzle, and a dash more of Terry’s chocolate orange!
Chocolate & orange zest bundt cake with chocolate orange drizzle, and a dash more of Terry’s chocolate orange!
Chocolate + orange = heaven!
I have put up a few bundt cake recipes in my time now, including lemon and poppyseed or my rocky road bundt cake recipe, but something about chocolate and orange together is a marriage made in heaven.
My recipe for my chocolate orange cookies is amazingly popular, and is one of my favourite recipes ever! After the success of the cookies, I thought I would develop a cake version that would be perfect for afternoon tea, or just a cake for the week!
Bundt cake
This cake has a delicious light and moist sponge even with the flavouring – using cocoa powder gives you the flavour of the chocolate without making the cake too dense, and the orange gives it a nice citrusy zing! People often struggle with bundt cakes as they come apart in the tin, or they don’t come out at all.
There are various ways you can prepare them such as cake release spray, or melted butter and flour, or just butter and flour. I prefer the ‘low-fat oil spray’ you can get for cooking these days, and then a tablespoon of flour on top and coated.
Recipe
I find that this recipe is easy to follow, and is totally worth it in the end! I spent ages researching into chocolate bundt cake recipes, even looking at my own, but I wanted to try something else – this one is perfect for the orange flavouring! I hope you all like it too!
You can use a simpler cake recipe by using 350g of butter, and caster sugar, with 7 medium eggs, and 300g self raising flour, and 50g cocoa powder, and bake for 55 minutes at the same temperature!
Tin and bake
For this Cake, I used the Nordic Ware Cathedral cake tin, as I just thought the shape of it would also suit the segment shapes. You can use simpler cake tins or other Nordic Ware Bundt Tins, but this size is the correct size. In Nordic Ware terms, its a 9 cup batter tin. I just think using Nordic Ware tins makes things so much more special!
I bake my cake for approximately 45 minutes, making sure there are no bubbling sounds coming out of it, and testing it with a skewer to make sure its baked fully. Leave the cake in the tin for 10 minutes and then turn it out onto a wire rack to cool fully! Sometimes cakes can get a little stuck, but leave it with the cake bottom side down, and wait to see if gravity helps! Good luck!
