Double Chocolate Orange Loaf

Possibly my favorite chocolate cake recipe from Lurpack- it is like a brownie in cakey form!. I have successfully used yoghurt instead of sour cream, just because I tend to have yoghurt around more often and I don't really bother with the syrup due to extensive laziness on my part...

Ingredients

• For the cake:
• 275g caster sugar
• 175g Slightly Salted Lurpak butter at room temperature
• 2 eggs
• 200g self-raising flour
• 50g cocoa
• 280ml sour cream
• 100g dark chocolate chips (or chopped up bar)
• For the syrup:
• 100g caster sugar
• 125g water
• 1 orange

1. Butter the tin (990 ml loaf tin) and line with greaseproof paper. Heat the oven to 160°C/140°C Fan/Gas 3.
2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar with an electric whisk until light and fluffy. Add the eggs and continue to whisk until well combined.
3. Gently fold in the flour and cocoa then the sour cream and chocolate chips. Spoon the ingredients into the loaf tin and bake for 1hour 15minutes until the loaf is risen and springs back when you gently press the top.
4. While the cake is cooking make the syrup and candied peel. Using a vegetable peeler remove the outer skin from the orange, leaving the white pith behind, and cut it into thin slivers. Set aside the orange for later.
5. In a saucepan heat the water and sugar together until boiling, add the orange peel and simmer for 5-6 minutes until the liquid is reduced and syrupy.
6. When the cake is cooked make several skewer holes in the top. Remove the orange peel from the syrup, add the juice of half the orange and drizzle over the cake. When the cake has cooled remove from the tin and scatter over the candied peel.