WHOLLY ORANGE!

Boiled WHOLE Orange Jaffa cake.

Oranges are in season! So why not make the most of them, and that means using the whole thing zest and all! This is a cake that allows you to use every bit of an orange and gives you a dense and moist yellowy orange cake marbled with rich dark chocolate.  Delicious.

By boiling the orange the pith becomes soft and the bitterness is taken away, leaving instead a perfect balance of zest and juice and whole orange flavour packed with a punch! You don't have to add the chocolate if Jaffa is not your taste, but if you haven't tried orange with chocolate before it's worth it, they're a food pairing that always works a treat!

Make the most of the orange season and give this cake a go!

Recipe for my Jaffa orange cake that uses the whole orange:
Ingredients:
2 oranges (Navel variety or Valencia, no pips)
125 g butter (melted)
1 cup milk
2 heaped tablespoons of sour cream
3 eggs (Lightly beaten)
2 cups self raising flour 
1 cup sugar 
1tsp baking powder

Boiling oranges

100 grams of dark chocolate. (Chopped roughly)


Method:
1. Place oranges in pot and cover in water, bring to the boil. Pour out water, then replace with more cold water and bring to the boil again then turn the heat off and leave covered for 10 minutes. 
2. Remove oranges and let cool until they can be handled then cut into quarters, and process in the food processor for 1 minute. 
3. Preheat oven to 160 degrees and prepare a cake tin. 
3. Put the pureed oranges in a bowl and add the eggs, milk and sour cream and mix. Then mix in the remainder ingredients. Mix it all together to form the cake batter. 
4. Take the tin and pour half the batter in, then sprinkle with the chocolate. 

5. Poor the remainder of the batter, and place in the oven for 50-60 minutes.
6. Remove from oven and let cool for 5-10 minutes. 
7. Tip cake out and serve. 

This bright yellow cake will have your mouth dripping when it comes out of the oven, but it lasts a week in the fridge and only gets better with age, so theres not rush!