Description
Recipe for homemade Jaffa cakes filled with orange flavored buttercream.
Ingredients
Scale
- 175 g unsalted butter, softened
- 175 g caster sugar
- 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 175 g self-raising flour, sifted
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Zest of 1 orange
- 2 tablespoons fresh orange juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- For the Buttercream: 100 g unsalted butter, softened
- 200 g icing sugar, sifted
- 1 tablespoon fresh orange juice
- 1 teaspoon orange extract
- For the Topping: 150 g dark chocolate, melted
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180 C (160 C fan/Gas Mark 4). Grease and line a 12-hole muffin tin.
- Cream the softened butter and caster sugar together until light and fluffy.
- Gradually beat in the eggs.
- Fold in the sifted flour and baking powder.
- Stir in the orange zest and 2 tablespoons of orange juice and vanilla extract.
- Spoon the batter evenly into the muffin tin holes, filling each about two-thirds full.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean. Let the cakes cool in the tin for 5 minutes, then turn them out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- To make the buttercream, beat the softened butter until smooth. Gradually add the icing sugar, beating well after each addition.
- Mix in the 1 tablespoon of orange juice and orange extract until you have a smooth, pipeable buttercream.
- Once the cakes are cool, slice each cake horizontally in half.
- Pipe or spread a layer of orange buttercream onto the bottom half of each cake. Place the top half back on.
- Dip the top of each filled cake into the melted dark chocolate, ensuring a full coating. Let the chocolate set on a wire rack.
Notes
- Use a small round cutter to trim the baked sponge bases if you want a perfectly uniform Jaffa cake shape before filling.
- If you prefer a firmer filling, chill the assembled cakes briefly before dipping them in chocolate.
- Prep Time: 30 min
- Cook Time: 15 min
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: British
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cake
- Calories: 350
- Sugar: 35
- Sodium: 80
- Fat: 22
- Saturated Fat: 13
- Unsaturated Fat: 9
- Trans Fat: 0.5
- Carbohydrates: 36
- Fiber: 1
- Protein: 4
- Cholesterol: 85
Keywords: Jaffa cakes, orange buttercream, chocolate topping, homemade cakes, sponge cakes