Winter Warmer

The only good thing about winter is that we got to eat warm and hearty dessert. This pudding cake is incredibly wonderful, and it's very grown up taste. It is not sickly sweet like some pudding cake, it has got chocolate, and a slight orange bitter tang that makes it so special. It is adapted from Nigella Lawson's How to be a domestic goddess, and from the moment i read it, i just want to make this cake. I love orange and chocolate, i think the combination of the 2 is heavenly. Of course, if you dun like marmalade, you can substitute it with any other jam, like apricot. Of course, it will taste entirely different with a different jam, but it won't be too bad. Worth a try i would say!



when just came out of the oven, the tangy orange aroma of the pudding cake just make you drooling ***
and the best part, you dun have to wait for it to cool down completely, it's best serve warm, with very cold custard.





Orange Blossom Chocolate Pudding

125g unsalted butter
100g dark chocolate buttons
300g thin-cut marmalade
2 tbsp orange blossom water
120g caster sugar
pinch of salt
2 eggs, lightly beaten
150g SR flour

1. Preheat oven to 180 degree Celsius
2. Grease and line a 20cm spring foam tin
3. Melt butter and chocolate in a bowl, over a saucepan of simmering water, stir it gently with a metal spatula, and remove from heat when melted. Cool slightly.
4. Add marmalade, sugar, and a good pinch of salt. Combine everything.
5. Gently add in the beaten eggs with the spatula.
6. Sieve flour over the batter, gently fold in.
7. Bake in preheat oven for about 50 minutes or until cooked. If pudding become brown too quickly in the oven, cover it with a piece of foil for the last 10 mins of baking.
8. Cool for 10 mins in the pan, remove cake, slice and serve with orange custard.

Orange custard

Sure you can make your own custard, but I'm lazy and i use store-bought pouring custard. For orange custard, just mix in 1 tbsp of orange liqueur like Cointreau. If your guess includes kids, then just leave the Cointreau and use 1 tbsp of Orange Blossom Water instead!