Chocolate Orange Marble Cake Recipe 46

ORANGE CHOCOLATE MARBLE CAKE WITH ORANGE BUTTERCREAM FROSTING

Steps:

• Grease and flour two 9 inch layer pans.
• Cream butter and sugar in a large bowl with electric mixer.
• Blend in orange rind and eggs.
• Sift flour, salt and powder together and add alternately with milk, beating well after each addition.
• Pour about 2/3 of batter into prepared pans.
• Combine melted chocolate, baking soda and water and blend into remaining cake batter.
• Spoon chocolate batter here and there over orange batter and cut through with spatula or knife to make a marbled effect.
• Bake at 350* for 30 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched.
• Cool cakes in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans and cool completely on racks.
• Fill and frost with Orange Buttercream Frosting.
• Decorate with mandarin oranges.
• Orange Buttercream Frosting: Blend butter and egg yolk at low speed in a large bowl.
• Gradually beat in sugar alternately with orange juice.
• Beat in orange rind.

CHOCOLATE & ORANGE MARBLE CAKE

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.