Marmalade Jaffa Cake

After I made all of that lovely marmalade last week, I thought I'd better find some more interesting ways to use it up rather than eat marmalade on toast for breakfast for the next 3 months!

I stumbled across a recipe for a home made jaffa cake but it had too many eggs for my liking so, naturally, I made my own version!

I used a basic sponge recipe and baked it just a little more than usual (in a lower oven) to make it slightly dry/thirsty. I let it cool in the tin and skewered it all over to make lots of holes, which drank up the warm, very slightly watered down marmalade when I poured it over. I added a little bit more of the marmalade mixture before topping it with melted chocolate - yum!

If I make it again, I'll add some citrus zest to the cake mixture to give it a bit more of a citrus kick. Cameron enjoyed the more subtle flavours in this one though, so the cake didn't last long!