Orange Cake

Ingredients

• For the cake:
• 2 large eggs
• 9 tbsp sugar
• 9 tbsp vegetable oil
• 9 tbsp milk
• 700 gr (6 ½ cups) all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• A pinch of salt
• Filling:
• 5 tbsp all-purpose flour
• 10 tbsp sugar
• 300 ml (10.5 oz) milk
• 400 gr (3 ½ sticks) butter
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• the zest and juice of a large orange
• Chocolate glaze:
• 100 ml (4 oz) heavy cream
• 8 tbsp sugar
• 4 tbsp cacao
• Zest from an orange

Instructions

1. For the cake: Mix the eggs and sugar until the sugar dissolves. Slowly add the oil mixing continuously and then add the milk until all liquids seem evenly spread. Stirring with a wooden spoon (or any other kind of spoon, just don’t use a mixer), add in the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder and salt). The batter should turn out more liquidy and not too thick. Turn a rectangular cooking pan over and sprinkle some flour on it. Split the batter in four and pour one of the quarters on top of the pan (basically its butt). Bake for about 5-7 minutes. When you take it out of the oven you have to be very careful and quick when taking the cake off. Use a knife and again, you have to be fast, if not you will never be able to take it off since it really sticks to the pan.
2. For the filling: In a saucepan put the flour, sugar and milk, stirring at medium heat continuously until it thickens. Remove from heat and let it cool.
3. After it cools completely add the butter, vanilla as well as the orange zest and juice.
4. Put the cream in between the layers
5. For the glaze: Put the chocolate, heavy cream, sugar, cocoa powder and orange zest in a saucepan. Whisk continuously and let it boil until it becomes dense. Pour the glaze on the cake. Leave the cake in the fridge for the glaze to harden and then cut it in small squares/rectangles. Enjoy it!