I have no excuses for my blog absence. No, I wasn't busy with my little girl. Or with my family in general. I just had other things to do with my precious 1.5 or 2 hours when she naps instead of blogging.Yesterday I pinned a photo of my Chocolate cake in an orange experiment, courtesy of 'Camping Hacks That Are Too Genius' via Facebook.
Super easy to do. Just cut the top off the orange, core out the middle and pour in your choice of chocolate cake batter. Here's the recipe I used:
1 cup water
1 1/2 cups sugar (or just 1 cup, or whatever you like to use. Less is more!)
4 large tablespoons of butter/marg
2 large tablespoons of cocoa
Put all of the above into a pot on the stovetop and stir over low heat until the butter/marg has melted.
Bring it to the boil and then simmer for about 5 minutes.
Let it cool, then add:
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 1/2 cups of SR Flour
1/2 teaspoon of Bicarb Soda
Mix and distribute between oranges/cake tin. I only used two oranges, but with the amount of mix I had you'd probably make around 8-10 oranges of average/large size I guess.
Sit the top of the orange back on and wrap them up individually in alfoil (normally you'd throw them onto hot campfire coals).
Just keep a spare cake tin handy in case you've got too much cake mix left over! Or a small child ready to lick the bowl.
I put my oven on 160C and left everything (cake tin and oranges) for 30 minutes. Perfection. To be honest, the oranges would be even better if you used Jamie Oliver's 30 minute meals brownie recipe (posted here somewhere) and undercooked it so you got a lovely semi formed gooey mess of chocolate infused with orange. Need I say more....
