Chocolate Orange Buns

Preheat the oven to 170⁰C.

Beat together the butter and sugar.

Beat in the eggs one at a time adding a little of the flour if the mixture splits.

Sieve in the remaining dry ingredients, add the orange zest and stir together ensuring you do not over-beat the mixture.

Spoon into the bun cases.

Bake for 20 minutes. Ensure the buns are fully cooked before you remove them. A skewer inserted into the center should come out clean. Alternatively, the bun should spring back when you press the top gently.

Melt the chocolate. The easiest way to do this is to heat it gently in the microwave. I put it on rapid defrost and it takes about 1 minute. Make sure that you stir it every 15 seconds or so. This will aid the melting and ensure it doesn’t burn.

Whilst the chocolate is cooling beat (or whisk if you dare) together the icing sugar, butter and orange juice or liqueur.

Add the cooled chocolate and beat together once more.

Once the buns have totally cooled place a small spoonful of the icing onto each bun pressing a segment of chocolate orange into each little mound of icing.