Chocolate And Orange Fairy Cakes - cooking recipe

Ingredients

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

Preparation

Preheat oven to 190\u00b0C.
Line 2 muffin pans (12 hole) with paper cases.
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
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.
Stir in chocolate and orange zest.
Fold in flour, adding orange juice to bring mixture to a dropping consistency.
Divide mixture between cases so each is two-thirds full.
Bake in middle of oven for about 20 minutes or until the cakes are well risen, golden and feel spongy to fingertips.
Cool on a wire rack.
Make icing.
Orange: Place icing sugar and orange zest in a bowl, add enough orange juice to mix to a fairly stiff consistency.
Icing should hold a trail when dropped from a spoon but gradually find its own level.
It needs little liquid.
Chocolate: Melt chocolate and milk together.
(I use a microwave oven for this- take care, chocolate burns easily.) Stir well to mix.
Ice cakes with orange icing and swirl the chocolate on top.