Chocolate Orange Cake

This is a very tasty, very moist recipe that I found on CC and modified to make it orange, everyone in my family LOVED it.

Chocolate Orange Cake

Ingredients

  • 2 c all purpose flour
  • 2 c sugar
  • 1 ts salt
  • 1 1/4 ts baking soda
  • 1 c orange juice
  • 1/2 c dutch processed cocoa
  • 1 c buttermilk
  • 3/4 c oil
  • 2 large whole eggs
  • 2 ts vanilla
  • 2 tbsp grated orange peel

Instructions

  1. Heat orange juice in microwave for 30 seconds or so until warm. Add cocoa powder. Stir until combined. Allow to cool.
  2. Mix dry ingredients in a mixer with whip until well incorporated.
  3. Combine buttermilk, eggs, oil and vanilla. Add to dry ingredients while mixing. Scrape well and mix on low speed 2 minutes.
  4. Add cocoa mixture and orange peel and mix 1 more minute.
  5. Let batter rest 1 hour.
  6. Grease and flour pans and bake for 40 minutes.