Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, orange fruit cake with chocolate frosting. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Another delicious recipe to share with you all! It's a perfect combination of orange and chocolate! Orange cupcake recipe with orange frosting.
Orange fruit cake with chocolate frosting is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Orange fruit cake with chocolate frosting is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have orange fruit cake with chocolate frosting using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Orange fruit cake with chocolate frosting:
- Make ready 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened
- Take 3/4 cup sugar
- Take 4 teaspoons finely grated fresh orange zest
- Prepare 2 large eggs
- Get 1/2 cup plain yogurt/sour cream
- Prepare 1/4 cup fresh orange juice
- Get 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- Get 1 tsp baking powder
- Get 1 / tsp salt
- Take 1/2 tsp baking soda
- Prepare 1/4 cup raisins mixed with sultans
- Take For the frosting
- Take 1 cup butter
- Get 3 cups confectioners sugar
- Prepare 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- Get 3 tbs milk or heavy cream
- Make ready 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Prepare 1/4 cup dark chocolate chopped and melted (optional)
- Get 1/2 tsp salt
Stir constantly until chocolate is melted and smooth. Carefully transfer bowl to work surface. This cake happily reminds me of my grandmother Morgan. She always had a cake baked and ready to serve any time her I've frosted this cake with chocolate buttercream frosting but plain vanilla buttercream is great on this cake too or add a little orange zest to it for some.
Instructions to make Orange fruit cake with chocolate frosting:
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly butter an 8-inch square baking pan and line bottom with wax paper, then lightly butter paper. - Beat together butter, sugar, and zest in a large bowl with an electric mixer until creamy, about 2 minutes. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating until just incorporated. Whisk in the yogurt and orange juice, then add remaining ingredients, whisking until just combined. - Transfer batter to baking pan and bake in middle of oven until golden and a wooden
- Frosting
- Beat the butter with a hand mixer until creamy
- Add the sieved and mixed confectioners sugar and cocoa in 3 parts while beating with the hand mixer
- Add vanilla and salt
- Add milk or heavy cream to achieve your desired consistency
- Lastly add your melted chocolate and mix well
This cake gets all of its sweetness from dried fruit (and a little from the dairy and orange juice). That means no added refined sugar! Once the cake is completely cooled, spread the chocolate-date frosting over the top. I decided to make it an Orange Chocolate Cake as oranges are in season right now and I have a dozen in my fruit basket at any point. Coming to the tastiest part of the cake, the frosting!
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