Friday, July 6, 2012

Chocolate Orange Jaffa Mud Cake

This is a variation of mud cake. The original recipe is no longer online.

Too much flash
Ingredients
Chocolate batter
125g Dark Chocolate
125g Butter
200mL water
1 egg
200g Caster Sugar
200g Self-raising Flour


Orange Batter
125g White Chocolate
125g Butter
Juice from one orange diluted to 200ml
Orange Rind
1 egg
200g Caster Sugar
200g Self-raising Flour
Red and Yellow food colouring (Or orange)

Orange frosting
100g butter
100g white chocolate
300g icing sugar
4 tablespoons thickened cream

Chocolate glaze
200g dark chocolate
150ml thickened cream

Recipe
Cake
1.    Preheat oven to 170C (150C fan forced)
2.    Heat dark chocolate, butter and water on low heat until everything has melted and allow to cool
3.    Beat egg, caster sugar and self-raising flour together.
4.    Beat in melted chocolate and set aside batter.
5.    Heat milk chocolate, butter and orange juice on low heat until everything has melted and allow to cool
6.    Beat egg, caster sugar and self-raising flour together.
7.    Beat in melted white chocolate/orange juice mix and add the orange rind.
8.    Grease 18cm circular cake pan and line with baking paper
9.    Fill pan with alternating spoons of orange and chocolate mix.
10.  Bake until skewer comes out clean (usually 40min)
Orange frosting
1.    Melt white chocolate
2.    Beat melted chocolate, butter, icing sugar and cream until soft and mix in food colouring
Chocolate glaze
1.    Heat chocolate and cream over low heat until all melted.
2.    Keep it warm
Putting everything together
1.    Allow cake to cook. (Preferably wait a day)
2.    Slice cake in half into two layers
3.    Spread orange frosting between two layers
4.    Pour chocolate glaze over cake.
5.    Decorate with remaining orange frosting