CHOCOLATE & ORANGE MARBLE CAKE

Chocolate & Orange Marble Cake image

Provided by Baby Kato

Categories Dessert

Time 1h25m

Yield 1 cake, 12 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 14

1 cup unsalted butter
1 1/2-1 3/4 cups sugar, white
4 eggs, large
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, pure
3 1/2 cups cake-and-pastry flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup 1% low-fat milk
1/2 cup chocolate chips (bittersweet or dark)
1/8 cup milk chocolate chips, melted
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 teaspoons grated orange rind
2 tablespoons orange liqueur, grand marnia (may use orange juice)
icing sugar

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease a deep 9-inch tube pan and dust with flour, put aside until needed.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Next beat in the eggs, one at a time then add vanilla.
Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt.
Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, alternating with the milk, making 3 additions of dry and 2 of the milk.
Put half the batter in a smaller bowl and stir in the melted chocolate chips and cocoa. Mix well.
Stir the orange rind and liquer into the remaining batter.
Pour half the orange batter into the a prepared tube pan.
Then in a random fashion spoon the chocolate batter overtop of the orange batter and finish with the rest of the orange batter.
Swirl a knife, through the batter to create marble effect.
Bake in 350°F oven for about 1 hour check and see if cake is done, if not keep in until a skewer inserted in centre of cake comes out clean, shouldn't take longer than 1 to 1 1/4 hours.
Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto wire rack to cool.
When ready to serve dust with a little icing sugar.