Chocolate Orange Marble Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Grease and line the base of a loaf tin (8 x 21cm/ 2lb) with baking parchment. Beat the butter, sugar, eggs and flour together in a large bowl with an electric whisk or in a food processor until lump free.
• Split the mixture into two bowls, beat the milk, followed by the cocoa powder into one. Beat the orange juice, zest and orange food colouring, if using, into the other.
• Spoon alternate dollops of the mixture into the cake tin, then use a skewer to create a marble pattern by dragging it through the mixture in swirls. Make sure you don't overmix or you won't see the pattern. Smooth the surface if necessary.
• Bake the cake for 45 - 55 mins until golden and risen, and a skewer poked in comes out clean.
• Leave the cake in the tin to cool, then turn out. Melt the chocolate in a bowl over barely simmering water or gently in the microwave. Use a spoon to drizzle the chocolate over the cake.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one 10 inch tube pan.
• In a large bowl, cream the butter with 1 cup of the white sugar. Beat in the eggs, then the vanilla and the yogurt.
• In another bowl, stir together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Beat the flour mixture into the creamed ingredients. Turn half of the batter into another bowl. Add the orange rind to one bowl and the melted chocolate to the other. Alternately spoon the orange and chocolate batters into a greased and floured tube pan. Swirl through the two batters with a knife to create a marbled effect.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 50 minutes. As soon as the done cake is removed from the oven, stir together the remaining 1/4 cup sugar, the orange juice, and the orange liqueur and pour over the still hot cake. Let the cake finish cooling on a rack before serving. Makes about 10 to 12 servings.

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.

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.