Orange Choco Chip Cake
By: Ruwani Kumar
Published: Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 10:24am

Ingredients




125g  Butter/ Margarine
125g  Caster Sugar
125g  All Purpose Flour
1tsp Baking Powder
3 Eggs
1/2  tsp Vanilla
1 1/2 tsp Grated Orange Zest
3 tbsp Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice
150 – 200 g Dark Chocolate Chip

Preparation

1 Preheat the oven at 180C and line a 8 inch round cake pan with a parchment paper 2 ·         Sieve the flour with baking powder and keep aside 3 ·         Cream together butter and sugar with  the grated orange zest in a bowl 4 ·         Add the eggs one at a time and beat well 5 ·         Add the vanilla and orange juice to the mixture  and beat for few seconds 6 ·         Next fold in the flour 7 ·         Lastly add the chocolate chips and fold the mixture twice. 8 ·         Spoon the cake mixture to the  prepared  8 inch round pan 9 ·         Bake for 20- 25 minutes  , or until a cake tester inserted comes out clean 10 ·         Serve it warm or cold with tea / coffee

About

This cake recipe is simple and delicious. I used the creaming method for this which works very well. The orange juice and the zest gave the cake a refreshing flavour. I always love a cake which is soft, moist and has few crumbs and this is one of those cakes. I dint have any chocolate chips at home so I used semi sweet dark chocolate. In the pictures you can see that I have put the bottom side of the cake on top. The reason for that is to show you my mistake. You can see that all the chocolate chips have sunk at the bottom and that is caused by folding the cake mixture too much after you add the chocolate chips. Just fold it twice once you have added the chocolate chips.