Chocolate Orange Cake

2 small oranges (approx 375g)
6 eggs
1/2tsp bicarb
1tsp baking powder
200g almonds
250g caster sugar
50g cocoa

Put the oranges in a pan of water and bring to the boil and cook for 2 hours until soft. Drain and cool, then pulp in a food processor.

Preheat the oven (Gas 4), butter and line a 20com tin.

Add the eggs, baking powder, bicarb, almonds, sugar and cocoa to the food processor. Mix together with the orange pulp into a batter. Pour into the cake tin and bake for an hour. Test with a cocktail stick, or cake tester if your posh! After 45mins you may need to cover with foil to prevent burning.

Leave to cool on a rack, take out of the tine when the cake is cold. Can be eaten as it is decorated with orange peel strips.

However I've taken to covering this with the following icing:-

75g butter
175g dark chocolate melted
300g icing sugar
1tbsp golden syrup
125ml sour cream
1tsp vanilla extract

Melt the butter and chocolate together in a pan over simmering water, add the golden syrup to the melted mix once its cooled. Then add sour cream, vanilla, and icing sugar. Mix together and decorate your chocoalte orange cake.