friday's bake

I looked  in the baking cupboard and wondered "What shall I bake", the cupboard had taken a bit of a hammering on Sunday with lots of ingredients being used up for Chris's birthday tea party.

I did however have most of the 'basics'. After trawling through a few books, I came across this 'Store-cupboard chocolate orange cake' in Nigella Lawson's How to be a domestic goddess - perfect.

A great  larder-standby cake that can whipped up at the last minute. More of a pudding sort of cake to have with cream or custard rather than a just to eat cake I think though.