These cute Jack o’ Lantern inspired Candy Filled Pumpkin Cakes are chocolate cakes that are baked inside orange cases! Perfect for some Halloween fun.
Halloween is a great opportunity to get creative in the kitchen and bake some fun cakes and party food. I have wondered for a while if it were possible to bake a cake in an orange and I thought that Halloween would be a perfect time to test this theory as the oranges could look a bit pumpkinish and would be fun for parties.
It is important to remove all the juice and flesh from the inside of the oranges other wise itmakes for bitter cakes that are too soggy!!! Also if you are creative at decorating the oranges after baking you can make pumpkin faces – I didn’t so I used pic monkey editing to make my spook-tacular pumpkin faces!
So if you fancy making these fun Candy Fillled Pumpkin Cakes then here is how you do it.
- 100g unsalted butter
- 100g caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 75g self raising flour
- 25g cocoa powder
- 8 small oranges
- candy of your choice - I used chocolate coloured beans
- lots of imagination!!!
- Pre-heat the oven to 180oC / 160o C (fan)
- Remove the tops of the oranges and remove all of the pulp and pith and all the juice from all of the oranges - otherwise they will make the cakes too wet
- Once this has been done cast aside the juice (I made some jelly with mine!)
- Beat the butter and sugar together until pale and creamy - about 2 -3 miniutes
- Add the eggs and beat again
- Add the sifted flour and cocoa powder and fold in until just combined
- Stand the hollow oranges in a muffin tin and then divde the batter between them - you want to fill each orange just over half way
- Place the orange filled cups into the oven and cook for about 25-30 minutes until the cakes are cooked right through
- Once cooled, if you are clever enough feel free to decorate your pumpkin oranges with a spooky face
- Also make a hole inside each cake and then fill with your chosen sweets
- Place the lid on top and they are ready to serve - i reccomend using a teaspoon to eat them with
- Please note - they will taste orangey
- Will keep until the next day but best eaten on the day they are made
What a great idea – I always have too much soup on my hands after pumpkin carving 😉
thank you, made a change from pumpkins x
I love these – so cute! x
These are fantastic. What an imaginative idea! x
oh what an awesome idea Jenny, these look fantastic. Excellent pumpkin carving too 🙂
such a clever idea jenny. you are so creative x
These cakes are fab! We used to bake cakes in oranges when I was a kid. I posted almost the identical thing on my blog last year (in case your interested: http://www.madewithpink.com/2012/11/cakes-baked-inside-of-oranges.html ). Can’t wait to make these again this year. Suck a great Halloween tradition. I like how yours are baked up a bit higher. Need to do that with mine this year. 🙂
These are very cute Jenny! I still have my empty orange pumpkins in the freezer so I might have to get them out & bake cake in them…although I’ll have to cover the cut out eyes up or there could be spillage!
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thanks Helen – you must gobe them a go but cover those peep holes first!!! x
That’s brilliant! I can’t believe the oranges cook so well – you’d never know they’d bee in the oven at all! 🙂
Been – not bee….obviously 😀
What a great idea! and that brown there looks in a way…lol!
Thank you for linking up with the #FridayFoodie
wow these are just great i would have thought the orange peel would of burnt but it does not at all what an ingenious idea clever clogs miss jenny
thank you Helen 🙂 x
What a fabulously creative idea! And looks a lot of fun too. I would never have thought of baking in an orange peel. Must give it a go soon. Found you on #recipeoftheweek
thank you i did have fun making them x
these are seriously cute
thank you x
Oh how lovely they look and how yummy they must have been! Love the scary faces and the carved pumpkin!
thank you – they were fun to make x
How clever! These look fantastic, and tasty too 🙂 I would have thought that the oranges would burn too… Very imaginative!
thnak you i did wondertoo, but the skins held together fine x
I love these – brilliant idea. i would have thought the orange would have dissolved into mush but these look amazing! x
This is amazing, especially as I have just discovered how flammable oranges are. I am loving your pic monkey faces too.
These are adorable. Will definitely have to make some as I know my son would love them 🙂
so clever and cute x #recipeoftheweek
Immaculately presented! Even when you’re food is being scary it’s still beautiful! Thanks so much for linking up with #recipeoftheweek! Pinned! x
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