My brother started university in September and he move in small flat all by himself. He started to ask me for easy and quick recipes that they are also my specialty. When you are a student and a sport team member as we both are, you don’t have much time to cook, and still you want to enjoy healthy and tasty food. So I start collect recipes that are both delicious and easy for him and me. University experience had a short: as soon as Covid-19 made its appearance in the neighborhood of Milano, my brother came back home but I still teach him recipes for when he will be back in his flat in Milano.
Today I will present you and all the busy students a easy cake full of nutrients given by cocoa power and walnuts. The cake has a tangy texture and it will melt in your mouth. It is ready in 10 minutes plus cooking time and all what you need it is an oven!
Ingredients
380 gr. floor
200 gr. icing sugar
3 eggs
230 gr. Butter
100gr. milk +2 tablespoon
20 gr. Cocoa
100 gr. grounded walnuts
some halves of nuts
1 orange
12 gr. baking powder
2 gr. of salt
Instructions
Heat oven to 180C. Grease a cake tin and line the bottom greaseproof paper.
Mix butter with the zest of an orange, beat the butter with the sugar sugar, then add 3 eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
Fold through raising flour and the baking powder
Divide the mixture between 2 bowls. Stir the cocoa powder into the mixture in one of the bowls add the grounded walnuts and the 2 spoons of milk. Add some walnuts halves in the white dough.
- Alternate the two doughs in the tin as you like.
- Bake the cake for 45-55 mins until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Turn out onto a cooling rack and leave to cool. Will keep for 3 days in an airtight container. But out of experience I tell you it will not last that long!
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