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Chocolate Orange Cake

The Ultimate Chocolate Cake Whenever we need a good recipe, we search out Felicity Cloake's  ultimate recipes online at the Guardian Newspapers lifestyle section -   www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle -  in which she makes and compares a variety of  chefs recipes to come up with an ultimate dish.  This chocolate cake recipe is all it should be, chocolaty, rich and have I mentioned, chocolaty.  However, for our Easter cake we changed the icing to a chocolate orange one and I give both buttercreams in the recipe below.  I hope you enjoy it as much as our guests did! 50g dark chocolate, melted and allowed to cool slightly 250g butter, at room temperature 250g light muscovado sugar ½ tsp salt 100g cocoa powder 250g plain flour 2 tsp baking powder 3 large eggs  250ml milk 50g chocolate chip For the buttercream: 140g butter, softened 50g cocoa powder 200g icing sugar ...