Chocolate And Orange Fairy Cakes

• 170 g butter
• 170 g caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• 170 g self-raising flour
• 85 g chocolate (drops)
• 2 oranges, juice and zest of
• Orange icing
• 110 g icing sugar, sifted
• 1 orange, juice and zest of
• Chocolate icing
• 200 g chocolate, chopped
• 50 ml milk

1. Preheat oven to 190u0b0C.
2. Line 2 muffin pans (12 hole) with paper cases.
3. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
4. Mix eggs together in a separate bowl and gradually beat into creamed mixture a little at a time, adding 1 tablespoon of flour if the mixture begins to curdle.
5. Stir in chocolate and orange zest.
6. Fold in flour, adding orange juice to bring mixture to a dropping consistency.
7. Divide mixture between cases so each is two-thirds full.
8. Bake in middle of oven for about 20 minutes or until the cakes are well risen, golden and feel spongy to fingertips.
9. Cool on a wire rack.
10. Make icing.
11. Orange: Place icing sugar and orange zest in a bowl, add enough orange juice to mix to a fairly stiff consistency.
12. Icing should hold a trail when dropped from a spoon but gradually find its own level.
13. It needs little liquid.
14. Chocolate: Melt chocolate and milk together.
15. (I use a microwave oven for this- take care, chocolate burns easily.) Stir well to mix.
16. Ice cakes with orange icing and swirl the chocolate on top.

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Taken from www.food.com/recipe/chocolate-and-orange-fairy-cakes-112435 (may not work)