Chocolate Orange Reindeer Cake
A showstopping Christmas cake with chocolate-orange flavor and easy reindeer decorations—fun, festive, and guaranteed to impress!
Equipment
- - Mixing bowls
- 9-inch round cake tin
- - Microwave-safe bowl
- - Hand or stand mixer
Ingredients
- For the Cake:
- 300 g caster sugar
- 250 g self-raising flour
- 50 g cocoa powder
- 200 ml vegetable oil
- 100 ml milk
- 3 eggs
- Zest and juice of 1 orange
- For the Buttercream:
- 100 g Chocolate Orange melted
- 100 g butter
- 180 g icing sugar
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp boiling water
- Decorations:
- 7 Chocolate Orange buttons
- 7 red Smarties
- 14 edible eyes
- 7 pretzels
Instructions
- Cake: Mix dry ingredients. Add wet ingredients and orange zest/juice. Pour into greased 9-inch tin and bake at 160°C for 45–50 mins.
- Cool: Let the cake cool before decorating.
- Buttercream: Beat butter and icing sugar. Add cooled melted chocolate, cocoa, and boiling water. Mix until smooth.
- Decorate: Spread buttercream on top. Add chocolate buttons as noses, Smarties, eyes, and pretzels as antlers.
Notes
Store at room temp for 5 days.
Freeze sponge if making ahead.
Double for a layered version.