Ingredients

How to make it

  • Preheat oven to 350 then generally grease 2 loaf pans and line bottom with parchment paper.
  • Prepare chocolate paste by placing cocoa and oil in a small bowl and blending well.
  • Add a drop or more of oil if mixture appears too stiff or thick to stir or blend easily.
  • For cake blend oil with sugar until light and fluffy scraping bowl often.
  • Blend in the eggs and stir in the vanilla, water, orange juice and zest.
  • In a separate bowl whisk together flour, soda, baking powder and salt.
  • Add to wet ingredients then remove one third of the batter to a small bowl.
  • Stir chocolate paste into this to make a chocolate batter and add grated chocolate.
  • Spoon alternating portions of batters into prepared pan then bake 40 minutes.
  • Cool in the pan 20 minutes before inverting onto a wire rack.
  • Stir together confectioners' sugar and orange juice to make a thick but pourable sauce.
  • Drizzle this over top of loaves then garnish with zest.

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