Chocolate And Orange Fairy Cakes

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 24
• 170 g butter
• 170 g caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• 170 g self-raising flour
• 85 g chocolate (drops)
• 2 oranges, juice and zest of
• 110 g icing sugar, sifted
• 1 orange, juice and zest of
• 200 g chocolate, chopped
• 50 ml milk

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 190°c.
• 2 line 2 muffin pans (12 hole) with paper cases.
• 3 cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• 4 mix eggs together in a separate bowl and gradually beat into creamed mixture a little at a time, adding 1 tablespoon of flour if the mixture begins to curdle.
• 5 stir in chocolate and orange zest.
• 6 fold in flour, adding orange juice to bring mixture to a dropping consistency.
• 7 divide mixture between cases so each is two-thirds full.
• 8 bake in middle of oven for about 20 minutes or until the cakes are well risen, golden and feel spongy to fingertips.
• 9 cool on a wire rack.
• 10 make icing.
• 11 orange: place icing sugar and orange zest in a bowl, add enough orange juice to mix to a fairly stiff consistency.
• 12 icing should hold a trail when dropped from a spoon but gradually find its own level.
• 13 it needs little liquid.
• 14 chocolate: melt chocolate and milk together.
• 15 (i use a microwave oven for this- take care, chocolate burns easily.) stir well to mix.
• 16 ice cakes with orange icing and swirl the chocolate on top.