Easy Terry's Chocolate Orange Cake

Ingredients

• 300 g of unsalted butter
• 300 g caster sugar
• 300 g eggs
• 2 tsp orange extract
• 200 g flour self-raising flour
• 100 g cocoa powder
• 1.25 tsp baking powder
• 2-3 tbsp of milk
• 350 g double cream
• 700 g milk chocolate
• 3-4 tsp of orange extract
• Terry's chocolate

Instructions

1. 1

   Preheat the oven to 170C/340F/Gas mark 4. Grab a bowl and add self-raising flour, unprocessed cocoa powder, baking powder and whisk until well combined.

2. 2

   Next, beat the unsalted butter and caster sugar in a bowl for 5 minutes.

3. 3

   Then, crack the eggs open into a bowl, add 2 tsp of orange extract. Add one egg and whisk well until you can no longer see the egg. Repeat this process for the remaining eggs.

4. 4

   Add half of the flour mixture to the butter mix and gradually add the milk. Use a large spoon or hand-held whisk to mix all of the ingredients together. Repeat this step with the second half of the flour mixture until you get a silky cake batter. Do not overmix the batter, there should still be some lumps.

5. 5

   Grab 2 lightly greased 7" non-stick cake tins and use a spoon to add equal amounts of the cake batter to each tin. Place the tins in the oven on the middle shelf and bake for 30 minutes or until done. Stick a skewer into each cake and if the skewer comes out clean then the cakes are ready.

6. 6

   Leave to cool on a rack for 2 hours or until cool before you start decorating.

7. 7

   Once the cakes have cooled add chocolate orange ganache in between both cake layers, add more ganache to the top of the cake and decorate with Terry's chocolate.