Orange cocoa cake
Orange cocoa cake recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1/2 cup Hershey’s cocoa
- 1/2 cup boiling water
- 1/4 cup, 1/2 stick, butter or margarine, softened
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoons plus 1/8 teaspoon baking soda, divided
- 1 cup plus 3 tablespoons buttermilk or sour milk, divided
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon freshly grated orange peel
- 1/4 teaspoon orange extract
- Orange buttercream frosting:
- 2/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 6 cups confectioners sugar, divided
- 2 teaspoons freshly grated orange peel
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 4 to 6 tablespoons milk
Recipe method:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Grease three 8 or 9 inch round baking pans. Line with wax paper.
- Stir together cocoa and water in small bowl until smooth. Set aside.
- Beat butter, shortening, sugar, salt and vanilla extract in large bowl until well blended.
- Add eggs. Beat well.
- Stir 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda into 1 cup buttermilk.
- Add to butter mixture alternately with flour.
- Measure 1 2/3 cups batter into small bowl.
- Stir in remaining 1/8 teaspoon baking soda and 3 tablespoons buttermilk, orange peel and orange extract.
- Pour into one prepared pan.
- Stir cocoa mixture into batter. Divide evenly between remaining two prepared pans.
- Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool 10 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks.
- Carefully peel off wax paper. Cool completely.
- Place one chocolate layer on serving plate.
- Spread with orange buttercream frosting.
- Orange buttercream frosting:
- Beat butter, 1 cup confectioners sugar, orange peel and vanilla extract in large bowl until creamy.
- Add remaining confectioners sugar alternately with milk, beating to spreading consistency.
- Top with orange layer. Spread with frosting.
- Top with remaining chocolate layer. Frost top and sides of cake.
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