This cake is the most foolproof, yummy, choc cake I know. My friend Zoe introduced me to this recipe and we have been baking it ever since. It has almond flour instead of wheat flour, and it has no butter so it is also gluten and dairy free – perfect when catering for any crowd of people these days and except for the sugar, it’s practically a health food :-).

1 large orange (boiled for about an hour, then blitzed with a mixer – I usually do a whole load at a time and freeze the extra goo for another time, make sure you let it cool a bit before you add to the mix).

6 Eggs

1 1/3 cup caster sugar (but normal granulated is fine)

50g cocoa

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

200g ground almonds

Put all the ingredients in a bowl, mix it up, pour into a greased tin and put in the oven at 180 degrees C for 45 minutes. Take it out, and let it cool in the tin. Put it on a plate and then scoff. Ideally make sure lots of people will be coming round that day so you don’t eat the whole thing yourself, but if needs must ….