Orange & dark chocolate rubble cake

I have been using this recipe for years, turning it out as muffins, a loaf cake, a round cake and even a sandwich-style cake, but I’ve finally settled for a square tin because I really like cutting it into squares and snacking on little bites of it. It’s light and airy, but the chocolate rubble is a masterstroke because every bite is different as the chocolate ratio changes throughout the cake. Try it! You won’t be disappointed.

Ingredients

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 160°C . Cut a large square of baking paper, scrunch it up, then smooth it out and use to line a 20 cm square cake tin.
2. Break the chocolate into pieces, add to a small food processor and pulse it until some is finely chopped while some is left in larger chunks. If doing by hand, chop the chocolate unevenly in the same way as best you can.
3. Put the eggs, caster sugar, orange extract and orange zest and juice in a large mixing bowl and beat together until evenly combined. Add the flour, melted butter, baking powder and milk and mix again until smooth. Fold in the chocolate rubble and mix once again until evenly combined.
4. Pour the batter into the lined tin, then bake for
   45 minutes, or until a skewer or knife inserted in the centre comes out clean.
5. Remove from the oven and leave to cool completely in the tin before cutting into 12 or 9 squares and serving with an optional dusting of icing sugar, or even custard.

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