Jaffa drizzle loaf
By Mary Cadogan
Cooking time
Prep: 20 mins Cook: 55 minsSkill level
Moderately easyServings
Cuts into 8-10 slicesIf you like Jaffa Cakes, you’ll love the moist, fruity cake. It will keep for a week, but it’s unlikely to last that long
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Freezable
Nutrition per slice
- kcalories
- 410
- protein
- 6g
- carbs
- 57g
- fat
- 19g
- saturates
- 11g
- fibre
- 1g
- sugar
- 37g
- salt
- 0.88g
Ingredients
- 140g butter, softened
- 200g self-raising flour
- 11⁄2 tsp baking powder
- 200g golden caster sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 6 tbsp milk
- finely grated zest 1 large orange
To finish
- 3 tbsp orange juice
- 50g golden caster sugar
- 50g dark chocolate
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Method
- Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Butter and line the base of a 1.2-litre loaf tin. Put all the cake ingredients into a bowl and beat with a hand whisk or wooden spoon for 3-5 mins, until light and fluffy. Spoon the mix into the tin and level the top.
- Bake for 40-50 mins, until golden brown and firm to the touch. Meanwhile, heat the orange juice and sugar gently in a small pan, stirring until dissolved. When the cake is cooked, remove it from the oven and spoon over the orange mix. Leave to cool in the tin, then remove and cool completely on a wire rack.
- Break up the chocolate and melt over a pan of simmering water or in the microwave on Medium for 1-2 mins. Drizzle over the cake and leave to set.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, January 2006
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
I've tried this recipe as a loaf, a round cake and this weekend tries cupcakes - I have to say the latter were my favourite! The ingredients provided enough for 12 cupcakes and as with previous attempts I zested 2 oranges instead of one. I filled each cupcake to 2/3 then added half a teaspoon of orange marmalade before covering with more cake mixture. They took around 45 mins to bake (as above) and once cooled I melted 100g dark chocolate and topped each cake - hey presto they were home-made Jaffa cakes! The marmalade fell out of the bottom of a few but they were absolutely delicious and have kept very moist. Will definitely make these again!
So simple but so scrumptious! This cake is more-ishly moist and tantalisingly tangy. I did find the chocolate trickling a bit tricky though - I blogged the recipe, check it out http://www.theannoyedthyroid.com/2012/09/01/jaffa-drizzle-loaf/
I was looking for an easy recipe to bake for a chocolate-orange mad friend coming to visit and stumbled upon this - so glad I did! I coated the top with chocolate instead of drizzling and used the zest of 2 oranges as others had suggested. My friend enjoyed it so much they took the entire cake away with them! Incredibly easy and the slice I tasted was delicious - will definitely be making this again very soon!