Chocolate Orange Drizzle Polenta Cake
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Serves: 12
 
Ingredients
  • 150g polenta
  • 125g ground almonds
  • 25g cocoa powder
  • 200g butter
  • zest of 1 orange
  • 3 eggs
  • 100g icing sugar
  • juice of the orange + extra orange juice (approx 25ml total juice)
  • 25g dark chocolate, grated
Instructions
  1. grease and line an 8inch loose bottomed cake tin
  2. pre heat your oven to 180oC / 160oC (fan)
  3. place the butter and sugar in a bowl of a stand alone mixer or food processor and whizz for a few minutes
  4. add the polenta, sugar, orange zest, almonds and cocoa powder and beat well
  5. add each egg one at a time, beating the batter in between
  6. pour the batter into your prepared tin and smooth over
  7. bake for 40-45 minutes until cooked right through
  8. as soon as the cake is cooked, mix the icing sugar with the orange juice to make a syrup
  9. make holes in the top of the cake using a knife , fork or skewer and then pour over the orange sugar syrup
  10. leave for a few minutes, and then scatter the chocolate over the top
  11. do not remove the cake from the tin until the cake is completely cooled
  12. then. enjoy a slice :)
Recipe by Mummy Mishaps at http://www.mummymishaps.co.uk/2017/01/chocolate-orange-drizzle-polenta-cake.html