Orange – 1
Eggs – 4
Sugar – 1 ½ cups
Flour – 2 cups
Milk – 1 cup
Cocoa powder – 1 tbsp
Drinking chocolate – 6 tbsp
Baking powder – 1 tbsp
Walnuts – ½ cup (optional)
For the sugar syrup
Sugar - ½ cup
Water – ½ cup
Lemon juice - 2 – 3 tsp
For the chocolate glaze
Butter – 100 gms
Condensed milk – ½ tin
Drinking chocolate – 4 tbsp
Cocoa powder -2 tbsp
For the cake
1. Blitz the orange in the food processor. If you like you can keep a few pcs of the skin of the orange in the processor also along with the pulp for that great orangy flavour.
2. Mix all the liquid ingredients together followed by the dry ingredients.
3. To this mixture add the orange and the walnuts. Dust the walnuts with flour before adding to the mixture.
4. Grease a 9 inch baking tin and bake for 30 – 40mins or till the skewer come out clean. Take the cake out and let it cool.
For the sugar syrup
1. Boil the sugar and water together till it comes to a string like consistency. Add lemon juice to this.
2. Take a large toothpick and prick the cake all over. Pour the sugar syrup over the cake. The syrup will be absorbed by the cake within a few seconds making the cake very moist.
For the chocolate glaze
Heat butter along with condensed milk. Add cocoa powder and drinking chocolate powder to this and stir continuously. In the beginning it may seem the butter is too much but once you stir for some time it starts coming together. Take it off heat and keep on stirring. Pour over the cake and let it cool in a fridge. You can decorate with orange pieces.