Chocolate and orange pound cake. Use this paste to paint the inside of the Bundt pan. This Chocolate Orange Pound Cake will fulfil all your chocolate dreams in one go. Decadent, rich and intense…this is pound cake combines those beautiful rich chocolate tones with fresh, fragrant orange with a sweet cream cheese frosting.
This beautifully simple chocolate and orange pound cake is rich and tender, moist and light, with just enough hint of orange flavor to bring out the chocolate. This recipe is adapted (barely) from Rose Levy Beranbaum's The Cake Bible. Fragrant, moist, and tender Orange Pound Cake flavored with freshly squeezed orange juice and zest. You can have Chocolate and orange pound cake using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Chocolate and orange pound cake
- You need 225 grams of sugar.
- Prepare 225 grams of flour.
- It’s 1/2 tbsp of yeast.
- You need 50 ml of milk.
- You need 1 of orange.
- You need 80 grams of butter.
- You need 3 of eggs.
- You need 50 grams of chocolate.
This easy recipe is a winner! This is hands down the best cake recipe to prepare from scratch (with no cake mix!). With or without frosting, it is perfect for tea time, breakfast or as a simple dessert to bring with you for potlucks and picnics. Line the bottoms with parchment paper.
Chocolate and orange pound cake step by step
- Pre heat the oven to 180°C..
- In a bowl add the eggs and beat. Once beaten,gradually add the sugar until it is integrated and it hasn't got any lumps.
- Add the milk and the butter, melted in the microwave first, and beat again..
- Then you gradually add the dry ingredients (sugar, flour, yeast) and stir until you have a smooth mixture. Then melt the chocolate and pour into mixture. Stir..
- Once you have a smooth mixture add grated orange rind, mix again and pour the mixture in a baking tin. If you have a normal tin butter the baking tin, then add some flour and tap it until it is all coated with the flour, this will help to prevent sticking..
- Put the tin into the oven and cook for 40 minutes..
- Before the time of cooking is over (5 -10 minutes before) check with a knife or a fork, put it into the dough if it comes out clean the cake is done, otherwise leave it a little longer ..
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