Orange and Chocolate Marble Cake with Toffee Crumble topping!

For this cake, I used a Good Food recipe, linked below. I highly recommend it, it turned out perfectly.

I wanted to top my cake with toffee crumble. However, I couldn't find it anywhere in the Cornish sweet shops. So instead I made it by blitzing twix's  and then squashing the mixture into little clumps.

When the cake was cooling, I sprinkled the toffee crumble onto the cake. It was delicious!!!

 

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2988682/chocolate-orange-marble-cake

Jamie Oliver's Orange Curd Tart

Really tasty recipe by Jamie Oliver. The recipe uses a lot of eggs though, so it's a bit indulgent. I've altered it slightly, just to fit round what ingredients I had.

6 egg yolks

200g caster sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

Zest and juice of 3 oranges

Lime juice (to make the orange juice up to 230ml)

4 eggs

250g butter

 

For the pastry,

100g icing sugar

250g plain flour

125g butter

Zest of 1 orange

1 egg

Splash of milk

 

Pulse the pastry ingredients in a food processor until it forms a dough and chill. Preheat oven to 180C/gas 4.

In a saucepan on a low heat, whisk all the filling ingredients apart from the butter. Keep whisking for 5 minutes until it starts to thicken. Add the butter in chunks and keep whisking for about 15 minutes until thick.

Roll out the dough and line the pastry into a 25cm tart tin. Bake blind for 15 minutes, then remove the baking beans and cook for a further 10-15 minutes until golden brown.

Fill the tart when still warm.

 

Definitely worth making.

 



Gluten Free Orange Cake

This recipe came from my cousin's mother in law. She's Australian and cooked it for me when I went out there with oranges from her garden.

2 oranges

250g sugar

250g ground almonds

5 eggs

Boil the oranges for thirty minutes, then blitz. Whisk the sugar and eggs together then add the almonds and the orange pulp. Bake for an hour at 200C/gas 6.

This time I just topped the cake off with chopped chocolate.

EDF Zingy Cupcakes

I love the cute EDF Zingy on all the adverts.

I made mini vanilla cupcakes then covered them in orange fondant icing and decorated.