Moist, soaked chocolate orange cake

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 250 g butter
• 200 g cane sugar
• 5 eggs, size M
• 250 g flour
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 90 g cocoa
• 100 g chocolate chips
• 2 packs of orange peel, grated
• 1 m.-sized orange(s)
• 100 g powdered sugar, sifted
• e.g. milk

Instructions

Working time approx. 15 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 1 hour 5 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour 20 minutes

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Cream the butter and brown sugar until fluffy. Then add the eggs, one at a time, beating each one for 2 minutes – this makes the cake nice and fluffy. Then add the orange zest. Mix the flour, baking powder, and cocoa powder and slowly fold into the batter mixture. Then fold in the chocolate chips. If the batter is too thick, stir in a little milk until the batter is difficult to drop from the spoon. Pour the batter into a loaf pan lined with baking paper (other pans will work too) and bake at 170 degrees Celsius (preheated would be nice) on the middle rack for about 65 minutes – the skewer test is recommended. There is no alternative to baking paper; see the last part of the recipe! While the cake is baking, squeeze the orange juice and mix the juice with 100g of sifted icing sugar until smooth. As soon as the cake comes out of the oven, use a skewer, knitting needle, or something similar to poke lots of holes into the cake while it is still in the baking pan. Then drench the hot cake with the orange and powdered sugar mixture. This cake will stay fresh and fluffy for a very long time—given the chance.