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Chocolate Orange Easter Loaf Cake

Ingredients

  • 225 g Butter
  • 225 g Caster sugar
  • 225 g Gluten free self-raising flour
  • 4 Eggs
  • 2 Oranges
  • 80 g Terry's Chocolate Orange Mini Eggs (crushed)
  • 25 g Cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp Orange food colouring

For the icing:

  • 80 g Smartie's Orange Mini Eggs
  • 80 g Terry's Chocolate Orange Mini Eggs
  • 200 g Icing sugar
  • 50 g Butter
  • 75 g Milk chocolate
  • 1 tbsp Cocoa Powder

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to gas mark 4 or 180 degrees.
  • Line a loaf tin with baking/greaseproof paper.
  • In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar (you may want to leave the stork baking block out of the fridge for a while first to soften to make it easier).
  • Gradually add the eggs and self-raising flour while folding.
  • Add the zest of two oranges and the juice of one.
  • Split the mixture into two bowls (I had two thirds to become chocolate, and one third as plain orange).
  • To the chocolate mixture, add the cocoa powder and the crushed Terry's Chocolate Orange Mini Eggs. Crush these in the packet using a rolling pin.
  • To the remaining sponge mixture, add the orange food colouring and mix well.
  • Spoon the two mixtures into the loaf tin, alternating each so that you have a marble pattern.
  • Smooth the top with a spatula and place in the oven. Bake for 45-55 minutes. Use a cake tester/skewer and once it comes out clean, you know the cake is ready to come out the oven.
  • Leave to cool.
  • Make the buttercream by mixing the icing sugar, butter and cocoa powder in a bowl.
  • Pipe this in a swirl pattern across the top of the cake.
  • Place an assortment of orange mini eggs (Terry's Chocolate and Smarties) into the icing. Smash a few so that you can sprinkle the fragments to the edges.
  • Finally, melt the milk chocolate (I did this in a microwave, checking on it every so often). Once melted, pipe through a fine nozzle and drizzle across the whole loaf.
  • Leave the chocolate to set, then cut a big slice and enjoy!