Chocolate Orange Cake Recipe

🧂 Ingredients

• 1¾ cup Flour
• 2 cups Sugar
• ¾ cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
• 1½ tsp Baking Powder
• 1½ tsp Baking Soda
• 1 tsp Salt
• 2 Eggs
• 1 cup Buttermilk
• ½ cup Canola
• 2 tsp Orange Blossom Water
• 1 cup Orange Juice
• Orange Zest
• 12 oz Cream Cheese
• ¾ cup Butter
• 3½ cups Powdered Sugar
• ⅔ cups Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
• 1 tsp Orange Blossom Water
• 2 tbsp Milk
• Pinch of Salt

Instructions

• 1 Mix the sugar and orange juice in a bowl of a stand mixer.
• 2 Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well between each addition.
• 3 Add the vegetable oil, orange zest and orange blossom water
• 4 Add the cocoa powder.
• 5 In a separate bowl mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together.
• 6 Alternating the dry mixture and the buttermilk add to the sugar and cocoa
  mixture.
• 7 Divide batter between two prepared 8 inch cake pans.
• 8 Bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the
  cake comes out clean.
• 9 Cool cake to room temperature before removing from the pan.
• 10 Cream the butter and cream cheese together in the bowl of a stand mixer.
• 11 Add the cocoa powder and powdered sugar.
• 12 Add the orange blossom water, milk, and pinch of salt
• 13 Mix until well incorporated.

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