Eggsperiment

Sorry, lame joke. I thought I’d have a bit of fun with my old faithful recipe:

8oz flour
6oz butter
6oz sf sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp bp
(I only remember it in ounces)

I wanted to make an Easter nest for some mini eggs, but also had a craving for chocolate orange. I added the juice and zest of one orange to this mix and two tablespoons of cocoa mixed with water to have the mixture to create a marble effect. The icing was simply 300g of icing sugar and about half the juice of an orange. It is a versatile recipe and worked well in the ring tin although I forgot to add the baking powder so it didn’t rise as much. Dan and Fran brought round a similarly decorated cake too (you can see it in the background), delicious icing, you’ll read about it here. Just helping myself to some now.