Self-saucing Jaffa pudding

PREP: 35 MINS
COOK: 30 MINS

Ingredients:

• 100g butter, melted, plus a little extra for the dish
• 250g self-raising flour
• 140g caster sugar
• 50g cocoa
• 1 tsp baking powder
• zest and juice 1 orange
• 3 eggs
• 150ml milk
• 100g orange milk chocolate or milk chocolate, broken into chunks (we used Divine orange milk chocolate)
• single cream or ice cream, to serve

For the sauce

• 200g light muscovado sugar
• 25g cocoa

Method:

1. Butter a 2-litre baking dish and heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Put the kettle on. Put the flour, caster sugar, 50g cocoa, baking powder, orange zest and a pinch of salt in a large mixing bowl. Whisk together the orange juice and any pulp left in the juicer, the eggs, melted butter and milk, then pour onto the dry ingredients and mix together until smooth. Stir in the chocolate chunks and scrape everything into the baking dish.
2. Mix 300ml boiling water from the kettle with the sugar and cocoa for the sauce, then pour this all over the pudding batter – don’t worry, it will look very strange at this stage! Bake on the middle shelf of the oven for 30 mins until the surface looks firm, risen and crisp. As you scoop spoonfuls into serving bowls, you should find a glossy, rich chocolate sauce underneath the sponge. Eat immediately with vanilla ice cream or single cream.

 not mine.credit and source: BBC GOODFOOD

Giant jaffa orange cake

PREP: 35 MINS
COOK: 1 HR, 5 MINS

Ingredients:

• 250g pack butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
• 300g golden caster sugar
• 4 large egg
• 100g full-fat natural yogurt
• 300g plain flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• zest 4 large orange (use the oranges below)

For the orange jelly

• juice 5 large oranges (about 500ml), save the zest of 1 orange to finish
• 100g golden caster sugar
• 6 gelatine leaves

For the chocolate ganache

• 300ml pot double cream
• 200g milk chocolate, finely chopped
• 100g dark chocolate, finely chopped

To finish

• 2 tbsp apricot jam
• zest 1 orange

Method:

1. First make the jelly. Grease a 20cm round cake tin and line with cling film (you can use the 23cm tin that you will bake the cake in, but you’ll have to make this the day before so that you can remove it before making the cake). Remove the zest from 4 of the oranges and set aside for the cake. Tip the orange juice and sugar into a saucepan and gently heat to dissolve the sugar. Meanwhile, soak the gelatine leaves in cold water for a few mins until soft. Remove the gelatine from the water, squeeze out any excess and add to the warm orange juice, stir until the gelatine has dissolved. Pour the liquid into the lined cake tin and chill for at least 4 hrs or preferably overnight.
2. Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3 and line a 23cm round cake tin with baking parchment. Tip all the cake ingredients into a large mixing bowl and combine with an electric hand whisk until smooth. Spoon into the tin and smooth over the surface. Bake in the centre of the oven for 55 mins, or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Cool in the tin for 15 mins, then invert onto a wire rack and leave to cool completely.
3. Now make the ganache. Heat the cream in a small pan until hot. Put the chocolate in a small bowl and pour over the cream, leave for 10 mins, then mix well – you should be left with a smooth chocolate sauce. Leave at room temperature until the ganache cools and thickens a little (you can put it in the fridge to speed this up, but keep an eye on it, as it will set quickly).
4. To assemble the cake, place it on a cake stand and trim the top to give you a flat surface. Warm the apricot jam in the microwave until a little runny. Paint it over the top of the cake, then flip the orange jelly out of its tin, and position on top. Using a palette knife, swirl the chocolate ganache over the orange jelly, letting it dribble down the sides of the cake a little. Serve straight away or within 24 hours.

not mine.credit and source: BBC GOODFOOD