Chocolate Orange Cake Recipe source : Lovely Butter Cakes (page 16) My modifications and notes are in red

Ingredients : Ingredients A - 200g butter (I plonked in the whole block of 250g) - 200g caster sugar (I reduced sugar to 150g) - 3 eggs - 1 tbsp chopped orange rind (I zested the rind of 1 whole orange) - 1 teaspoon vanilla essence. Ingredients B (Combined and sifted) - 250g plain flour (I used self-raising flour) - 1 tsp baking powder (I omitted) - 1 tsp baking soda (I omitted) - 1/8 esp salt (I omitted) Ingredients C

- 250ml sour cream - 30g cooking chocolate (chopped and melted using double boiler)(I used 50g) Method : 1. Preheat oven at 180C (I used 160C). 2. Grease a 9" baking mould with butter. (I used an 8 inch bundt pan which I buttered generously and sprinkled with flour. Then I set the pan aside in the fridge) 3. Beat butter and add sugar. Beat until soft and fluffy. 4. Add eggs one at a time and beat well after each addition. 5. Add orange rind and vanilla essence and beat till well combined. 6. Add ingredients B in four additions and sour cream in 3 additions. Beat well after each addition. 7. Take 1/2 of the batter and gently mix with the melted chocolate (do not overmix) 8. Alternate the plain and chocolate batter along the edge of the mould until all the batter is used up. 9. Bake in preheated oven at 180C for 55-60 minutes (Mine was done within 45-50 minutes at 160C) 10. Remove from oven and unmould after 10 minutes and let cake continue to cool.