Orange Chocolate Fudge Cake

Prep time 15 min	Cooking time 15 min
Cousine / Course Indian-Sweet	Servings 9

Ingredients – Cake

• मैदा / White flour – 2 cups
• मीठ / नमक / Salt – 1/4 tsp
• Baking powder – 2 tsp
• बेकिंग सोडा / Baking Soda – 1/2 tsp
• साखर / शक्कर / Sugar – 1 cup
• दही / Curd – 1 cup
• Orange zest – 1 tsp
• बटर / Butter – 1/4 cup
• संत्रा / Orange juice – 1 cup
• Chocolate chips – 1 cup
• Fresh cream – 1 cup

Baking cake

1. Take white flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt and sieve them to remove all lumps
2. In mixing bowl add fine grain sugar and thick room temperature curd, whisk well until sugar dissolve completely
3. Add one tbsp fresh orange zest in it mix well
4. Add melted butter in it and whisk until everything mix well
5. Now add flour-mix in batches, little at time and mix gently
6. Add orange juice in it and mix well, also adding batches
7. Take square cake tin and grease with butter and place parchment paper
8. Now pour batter in cake tin, tap cake tin 2-3 times to remove air bubbles
9. Preheat oven on 340 degree Fahrenheit or 170 degree Celsius
10. Place cake tin in preheated oven for 40-50 min, after 45 min check with toothpick comes clean
11. Once cake done remove cake tin, let cool for 5-10 min, demold cake from tins and let the cakes cool completely on metal rack
12. Remove edges, cut in half, then horizontally to make about 1/2 in slice
13. In Mixing bowl take chocolate chips and melt them in microwave 30 sec, mix well. If needed repeat
14. Add 1/4 cup fresh cream and mix well, chocolate ganache is ready, set aside
15. Take 1/2 cup fresh cream, whisk till light and fluffy, set aside for decoration

Layering cake

1. On flat base apply little ganache, place one cake slice,
2. Pour 1-2 tsp orange juice all over the cake slice
3. Apply thin chocolate ganache on cake slice
4. Place another cake slice and again apply orange juice and chocolate ganache, and repeat for 4-5 slices
5. Apply thick layer chocolate ganache on top layer, smoothen it with knife, you can dip knife in hot water to help with layering
6. Fill chocolate ganache in piping bag, decorate cake to your liking
7. Fill whipped cream in piping bag, decorate cake to your liking

Tips

1. Seiving dry ingredients is important to get lump free batter
2. Tapping cake tin is important to remove air gaps
3. Microwave chocolate fudge if it gets hard during layering
4. You can divide batter in two batches depending on tin size

How to serve

1. Serve fresh