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Chocolateorange Guinness Cake
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Servings: 4
Categories:
Cakes
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Chocolate
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Desserts
Ingredients:
-----CAKE----- 8
oz
Butter, room temperature 8
oz
Soft dark brown sugar 10
oz
Self-raising flour 1
t
Baking powder 1
pn
Salt 2
tb
Cocoa (rounded T's)
Grated rind of 1 orange 4
Eggs 1/2
c
Guinness
-----ICING----- 4
oz
Butter 8
oz
Confectioners' sugar
Orange(juice, grated rind)
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375F. Grease 2 8-9-inch cake pans. Cream the butter
and sugar until light and fluffy. Sift the flour, baking powder,
salt and cocoa into a bowl. Add the orange rind to the creamed
butter and beat in the eggs, one at a time, including a spoonful of
the measured flour mixture with each one, and beating well between
additions. Gently mix in the Guinness, a tablespoonful at a time,
including another spoonful of flour with each addition. If there's
any flour left over, fold it in gently to mix; blend thoroughly
without over-beating. Divide the mixture between the tins, smooth
down, and put the cakes into the center of the preheated oven. Reduce
the heat to moderate (350F) and bake for 35-40 minutes, or until the
cakes are springy to the touch and shrinking slightly in the pans.
Turn out and cool on a wire rack. . Meanwhile, make the icing. Cream
the softened butter and icing sugar together thoroughly, then blend
in the grated orange rind and enough juice to make an icing that is
soft enough to spread. When the cakes are cold, use half the icing to
sandwich them together, and spread the rest on top.
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