Jaffa Rock Cakes

18/12/2013

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Chocolate and clementine come together here in a deliciously light 'rocky' bun. For an extra chocolatey orange touch why not drizzle melted chocolate over the top of the cakes? Green and Black's Maya gold (orange and spices), or organic milk chocolate orange flavour would work wonderfully!

Makes: 12 cakes
Cooking time: 15 minutes

Ingredients:
200g self raising flour
25g cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
125g butter
40g granulated sugar
100g candied orange and lemon peel (I got mine from Tesco)
1 medium egg
2 clementines (zested and juiced)
2 tablespoons demerara sugar for decoration

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Parsnip and Maple Syrup Cake

4/11/2012

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Continuing with an Autumn theme, I made this cake for a housewarming party and asked people to guess what it was made of. No-one could, and they were pretty surprised to find out it was parsnip!

Adapted from BBC Good Food (Nov 2009)
Cooking time: 45 mins
Ingredients:
175g butter, plus extra for greasing
250g demerara sugar
100ml maple syrup
3 large eggs
250g self-raising flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons mixed spice
250g parsnips, peeled and grated
1 medium eating apple, peeled, cored and grated
50g pecans, roughly chopped
zest and juice 1 small orange
icing sugar, to serve

For the filling:
250g tub mascarpone
3-4 tbsp maple syrup

Directions
  1. Preheat the oven to 180C (355 F). Grease 2 x 20cm sandwich tins or line with baking paper. Melt the butter, sugar and maple syrup in a pan over gentle heat, then cool slightly.

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