Excellent flavour and texture. In view of the comments I covered the top with foil at 50 minutes, and didn't take the cake out until 1 hour 15. ( 160 deg NO fan) Cooked perfectly, with no sinkage.
Made the topping with juice of half an orange, and just 2 tablespoons of marmalade...seemed just right. I did use 2 tablespoons of poppyseeds, not teaspoons. Really pleased with the result.

Am about to make this recipe, but having never used poppy seeds, would you toast them for a minute or so?! Thanks

I made this in a round 23inch Springform tin as a birthday cake. It came out very well. Thin slices served with tea as it is quite dense.
I would recommend it.

Very nice moist and light cake, quick and easy to make. I would prefer the marmalade quantities to be in weight - is it a flat or heaped tablespoon, that's a big difference! I used heaped and I thought (as someone else commented) that there was far too much topping. Also, despite rising initially, the top of my cake flattened out, which could have been to do with too much marmalade in the mix?
I added far more poppy seeds than suggested, just because 2 teaspoons didn't look like much in the mixture, and I'm glad I did. I also reduced the sugar content by about 20g, just to make it less sweet. Overall, I would make again with a little less marmalade in the mix to see if that makes a difference to it staying risen.

An easy, tasty cake. However, I didn't measure my loaf tin and it must have been a bit small because some of the mixture spilt out onto the oven floor (a big enough blob to enable me to cut the burnt bit off and still have enough to taste before the main cake was cooked). My mixture was not " quite runny" when I put it into the tin. I love the idea of cooking this cake as muffins - must try :)

Following on from the last comment - the cake was delicious

I had problems cooking this cake. The middle didn't cook well so it needed much longer in the oven. Maybe it's my oven that's at fault?

What a moist, tangy, unusual cake... shame it fell apart when I tipped it out the tin! It was done all the way through, so maybe I just banged it too hard? Didn't mix it long enough? No idea, and as said it tastes delicious but it's sad and broken appearance is drawing ridicule from my friends!

This cake is YUMMY. I've made it as a loaf and as muffins (by reducing oven temp and cooking time). Everyone LOVES it and I've found adding even more marmalade makes it really moist. THANKS GOOD FOOD

really lovely cake, I made it last night - thanks :o)

I don't know what I did wrong but the cake sank. I followed the receipe, the only difference was that I used wooden spoon to mix instead of electric whisk. I tested with the skewer and it came off clean but when I tried to turn the cake out, it just crumbled to bits. Really disappointed.

Re the comments about the fan disasters, Raymond Blanc mentioned recently that using the fan assisted option is too fierce for cakes, conventional is the best way to bake. I have not had a disaster since I stopped trying to use the fan. I hope this helps!

Gorgeous cake!

Fantastic easy recipe. Made this as a round cake for a dinner party. Subsituting the poppy seeds for walnuts and served it with an orange mascarpone cream and orange segments - went down a treat.

Have made this cake several times with home made marmalade. Friends all loved it at coffee mornings. The tangy marmalade makes it a good eat for the mornings. Friends took remainder home.

No, Mad'un, you're not the only one. I took the recipe down from a friend's magazine and didn't put the other oven temp only the fan one. I bet everyone else either converted properly or didn't use a fan oven - the fan temperature is wrong - Gas 3 is at least 150 not 140. What a waste of effort and ingredients, mine was just as you describe.

Great recipe! I have made it several times and even non-marmalade lovers like it. I haven't toasted the poppy seeds. It freezes well. As to why it sank, in my Mary Berry book she mentions that overdoing the marmalade can cause this problem.

A delicious cake, very popular with our family. Instead of the marmalade topping, I put about 75g of melted dark chocolate on the top (fairtrade cooking chocolate) - gorgeous! Will be making again very soon.

Help!! Am I the only person in the universe to have had a disaster with this recipe? Looking for any tips you may have as my loaf a) sank dramatically b)became stodgy c) wasn't much good even as a pud. My oven is fan assisted and I cooked it on the second rung up for the 1Hour 10 mins.

Love this cake, it so beautifully moist, with a slight nutty taste from the poopy seeds and great tangy orange topping. I doubled up the quanties and made 2 cakes and this worked really well. Sending one into husbands work tomorrow for coffee time.