Ingredients
Serves: 12
- 3 1/2 cups plain flour
- 2/3 cup cocoa powder
- 3 tspns baking powder
- 1 tspn baking soda
- 2/3 cup vegetable oil
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 cups cold water
- 1 orange (just the rind, grated)
- 1/4 tspn vanilla powder or essence
Directions
Preparation:20min ›
Cook:40min ›
Ready in:1hour
- Preheat oven to 170 degrees celcius. Mix together all dry ingredients except sugar in a bowl.
- Beat oil and sugar in another mixing bowl.
- Then add the cold water, orange rind and vanilla and mix again.
- Add the dry ingredients into the mixing bowl and beat until they have blended well together.
- Pour mixture into a 25-30 cm tin and bake for 35-40 minutes.
Serving suggestion
You can cover it with any chocolate icing, as it tastes even better.
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Reviews and Ratings
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Reviews in English (3)
This cake worked out great - the orange rind just comes through the chocolate flavour. I used 1 3/4 cups of sugar instead of 2 whole cups and we didn't use any icing, just added whipped cream and strawberries when serving. - 13 May 2012
this cake will be nice and delicious - 27 Mar 2014
This cake looked great when it had finished baking, however, it is not edible. The taste was terrible - it tasted of flour. The birds and other local wildlife were given this cake to eat as it is not fit for human consumption. - 16 Nov 2012