Oranges and cocoa pound cake

A delicious Oranges and cocoa pound cake, soft and moist, full of orange flavour, which is extremely easy to make and will delight you

This Oranges and cocoa pound cake is one of the best cakes of this kind that I have made in the last years. I really like it because it is not dry in the middle, it is soft and moist, then it is full of an extraordinary orange flavour. I think you will like it just as much because besides the special taste it has, it is extremely simple to make.

Contain simple, handy ingredients that you definitely already have in the kitchen. Then, it is easy to prepare, and if you are new to baking any kind of cakes, this dessert is for you. It is extremely easy to prepare.

Ingredients you will need ?

• large eggs
• natural yogurt
• oil
• cocoa and coffee
• orange zest
• flour
• sugar

Tips for a grate Orange and cocoa pound cake?

• Do not reduce the amount of sugar. If you think that 350 grams of sugar is a little too much, I advise you not to reduce the amount. This cake is quite large, but first of all it has 60 grams of cocoa. This along with the coffee are quite bitter in taste. We need all 350 grams of sugar to get a balanced and sweet dessert.
• Use oil and not butter. Cocoa is a fairly dry ingredient in itself, therefore we need a good quality fat, and the oil in this cake is the recommended one. I was telling you more about this in the Chocolate Cake recipe . I prepared this recipe with olive oil, it turned out great.

Oranges and cocoa pound cake

Mihaela

A delicious Oranges and cocoa pound cake, soft and moist, full of orange flavour, which is extremely easy to make and will delight you

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 40 minutes mins

Total Time 55 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 12 slices

Equipment

• 21 cm diameters

Ingredients

  

• 4 large eggs
• 350 gr sugar
• 120 ml vegetable oil can use olive oil too
• 120 natural yogurt
• 250 gr flour cake flour
• 60 gr cocoa powder
• 6 gr instant coffee can used coffin free
• ½ teaspoon salt
• peel from two large granges
• 100 ml hot water
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda

Instructions

 

• Turn the oven to 180 ° C and prepare the cake pan.
• In a bowl, mix the flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda.

  Beat the eggs, orange peel and sugar with a mixer until they double in volume and the sugar has melted.
• In a smaller bowl, mix the cocoa and coffee, then add hot water. Mix with a spoon until a homogeneous paste is obtained.
• Over the egg mixture, add the yogurt and mix gently with a whisk or spatula. Then add the oil and the mixture of cocoa and coffee. Stir gently until smooth.
• At the end, add the flour. The dough then goes in the tray and in the oven for about 35 minutes, or do the toothpick test. After baking, leave the cake in the pan for about 5 minutes, then remove and leave to cool on a grill.

Keyword cocoa, oranges, Pound cake

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