Sometimes all you need is chocolate, even in a spicy household
.I made a chocolate an orange cake from nigella lawsons fab book.how to be a domestic goddess.

125g butter
100g dark chocolate broken into pieces
300g thin cut marmalade
150g caster sugarpinch salt
150g self raising flour
20cm springform tin ,buttered and floured
Oven180/gas 4

Melt butter and then stir in the chocolate.
Mix until smooth and melted.Now, add the marmalade,sugar,salt and eggs.Stir with wooden spoon until well mixed,beat in the flour bit by bit.Pour into tin andnbake for approx 50mins.Leave to cool .The icing is a matter of choice. As in the photo you could pour some melted chocolate and mix with some butter spread over the cake and sprinkle chocolate hundred and thousands