Ingredients:
• chocolate sponge cake (round or square) – 1 (1/2 kg)
• Orange 1 large
• Peach halves in syrup 1 small can
• fresh Cream – 1 cup
• brandy – 1 tbsp (optional)
• icing Sugar to taste
Method:
- Grate the orange rind. Peel the fruit.
- Chop the segments, reserving 3 or 4 for garnish.
- Drain the peaches from syrup and chop 3-4 halves.
- Turn the cake upside down and make a round or square cut ¾ way down the cake, leaving a margin of 3 cm all round.
- Carefully remove the cut piece. Or scoop out the cut portion.
- (This will create a hollow in the middle of the cake).
- Whip the cream till thick.
- Add icing sugar to taste.
- Combine the chopped orange segments, rind and chopped peaches.
- Add 2-3 Tbsp of cream and some of the scooped cake crumbs to hold the mixture together.
- Fill the hollow in the cake with the fruit mixture.
- Invert a serving plate over the cake and turn the plate, right side up.
- Sprinkle the cake with 2-3 tbsp of peach syrup (flavor the syrup with brandy if desired).
- Cover the cake with remaining cream and deco with reserved orange segments and peach halves. Serve chilled.