Soda cake

Name: Soda cake
Ingredients: 300 g butter, softened; 300 g sugar; 6 eggs; 350 g plain flour; 2 tsp baking powder; 50 g potato starch (or cornflour); 2 tbsp milk; 150 g chocolate, chopped; 1 orange, grated zest; juice of the orange; milk, as needed

From: Steina
Oven: 190 °C190 °C (375 °F)

Ingredients

300 g butter, softened11 oz butter, softened
300 g sugar11 oz sugar
6 eggs
350 g plain flour12 oz plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
50 g potato starch (or cornflour)2 oz potato starch (or cornflour)
2 tbsp milk
150 g chocolate, chopped5½ oz chocolate, chopped
1 orange, grated zest
juice of the orange
milk, as needed ('+ -' probably means '±', i.e. a little more milk if needed.)

Method

Heat the oven to 190°C and grease 2 ring tins (tins with a hole in the middle).Heat the oven to 375 °F and grease 2 ring tins (tins with a hole in the middle).
Beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then add the eggs one at a time.
Then mix in all the dry ingredients (flour, potato starch and baking powder), together with the grated orange zest and the juice.
Finally stir in the chopped chocolate and the milk.
Divide the batter between the two tins.
Bake at 190°C for about 60 minutes.Bake at 375 °F for about 60 minutes.

As she wrote it

Sódakaka

(Steina)

300gr. smjör - 300gr. sykur 6 egg - 350gr. hveiti - 2 tsk. lyftid. 50gr. kartöflumj. - 2 msk. mjólk 150gr. súkkul. - hýði af 1 appels. + safinn + - mjólk.

Smjörl + sykur = egg svo allt þurrefni. Síðast súkkul. + mjólk 2 form m/gati. 190°c í ca. 60 min