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Orange cake with double frosting

We are sitting here in the Icelandic winter wonderland with mountains of snow. Outside it is cold, again and again below 0 °F (resp. -18 °C). So you prefer to make yourself comfortable inside the house, with a wonderfully crackling fireplace, hot cocoa and a freshly baked cake. - Here I have a recipe for a wonderfully fluffy orange cake with two kinds of glaze for you - with icing and chocolate glaze on top.

Actually, grated orange peel is provided in the recipe, but I didn't get organic oranges here in the local supermarket, so I helped myself with orange flavor. Targeted shopping can sometimes be a bit difficult here in Iceland. So you just have to be flexible.

Ingredients

180 g flour

160 g sugar

2 tsp baking powder

1 pinch of baking soda

60 ml oil (taste-neutral)

4 eggs

90 ml cold water

1 pinch of ground vanilla

grated orange peel

90 g soft butter

240 g powdered sugar

3 - 4 tbsp whipping cream

100 g baking chocolate

Preparation

Separate the eggs. Beat the egg whites thoroughly until stiff.

In a bowl, mix the flour with the sugar, baking powder and baking soda and make a deepening in the middle.

Add the egg yolks, oil, water, ground vanilla and grated orange peel to the deepening and stir with a spoon.

Carefully fold the egg whites into the dough.  

Place in a loaf tin (12-14 inches resp. 30 cm) with baking paper and bake in a preheated oven at 350 °F (180 °C) upper and lower heat for about 40 minutes (toothpick test!).

Let the cake cool down well in the tin and then carefully remove it from the tin.

For the frosting, mix 50 g butter with the icing sugar and whipping cream and pour over the cake.

For the chocolate glaze, first slowly melt 40 g butter with the chocolate in a saucepan over low heat and then brush the cake with it. 

Let the glaze set in the fridge and then serve. 

Bon appetit! - Verði ykkur að góðu!