Sticky Jaffa loaf

Found this recipe on Women's Weekly. This sticky and sweet jaffa loaf combines citrusy orange with a dense sponge to make one delicious loaf recipe that you’ll want to make time and time again. Warm marmalade and a creamy, yogurt mix makes this loaf different to the rest. This cake only takes 1hr  to rustle up and is well worth the wait.

Ingredients:

• 3 tbsps good-quality thin-cut marmalade
• 150g tub 0% fat plain yogurt
• 3 medium eggs
• 175g golden caster sugar
• 175g spreadable butter
• 175g self-raising flour
• 30g cocoa powder
• ½ tsp baking powder
• Zest of 1 large orange
  

For the glaze:

• Juice of ½ an orange
• 5 tbsps good-quality thin-cut marmalade
• 900g loaf tin, buttered and strip-lined

Method:

 

 Set the oven to 160C/140C for fan oven.

 Warm the marmalade, beat in the yogurt and set aside.
 

Beat the rest of the ingredients in a large bowl until smooth. Quickly beat in the yogurt and spoon the mixture into the tin.

Bake for about 1 hours or until a skewer, when inserted, comes out clean. Check loaf after an hour.

Leave in the tin for 10 mins to cool. Make holes in it with the skewer.

 

To make the glaze:
Bring the orange juice to the boil in a small pan, then add the marmalade and heat until bubbling and smooth. Spoon it over the cake. Leave to cool in the tin.

 

Blackberry & Almond Meringue Cake

Impress your friends and family with this fabulous cake!!!!

Ingredients:

For the cake

• 200g butter , softened
• 200g golden caster sugar
• 200g self-raising flour
•  50g ground almonds
• 2 eggs and 2 egg yolks , beaten
• 2-4 tbsp milk
• 150g punnet blackberries

For the Meringue

• 2 egg whites
• 100g golden castor sugar, plus a sprinkle
• 2 tbsp flaked almond

For the filling

• 200ml double cream, lightly whipped
• 4 tbsp bramble jelly

Method:

 Line the base of two loose-bottomed 20cm non-stick sandwich tins with baking parchment. Heat oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3.

Put all the cake ingredients (except the blackberries and using just half the milk) in a bowl, then beat until creamy and well mixed. Stir in 100g blackberries, along with the extra milk if you need it to loosen the mixture a little. Divide between the sandwich tins and level the tops.

Quickly whisk the egg whites in a clean bowl, adding the 100g sugar, a spoonful at a time, until really thick and glossy. Lightly spread onto one of the cakes, then sprinkle with the flaked almonds and extra sprinkle of sugar. Bake both cakes for 40 mins, then take the cake without the meringue out of the oven and set aside. Bake the remaining cake for 30 mins more until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. Carefully remove cakes from the tins and cool on a wire rack. When the cakes are cold, peel off the paper.

To serve, spread the cream on the plain cake right up to the edges. Spoon over the bramble jelly, then sandwich with the meringue-topped cake and decorate with the remaining blackberries.