Boiled Chocolate Cake

A really easy recipe adapted from  here


Ingredients:

2 cups freshly squeeze orange juice
zest of 2 oranges
200g caster sugar
250g butter
1/2 cup Dutch cocoa
4 eggs, lightly beaten
2 tsp vanilla bean paste
465g self-raising flour, sifted

• Preheat oven to 170 degrees C.
• Grease and line a 21 x 11cm loaf tin.
• Put water, sugar and butter in a pan and cook over medium-low heat.  Stir until butter is melted. Add in orange zest.
• Sift cocoa into the butter mixture.  Whisk until combined.  Set aside to cool slightly.
• Add in beaten eggs, orange zest and vanilla.  Fold in flour and whisk until smooth using a balloon whisk.  
• Pour batter into the prepared tin and bake for 1 hour or until cooked when tested with a skewer.
• Remove cake from the oven and stand on a wire rack for 15 minutes before turning out.