Chocolate Orange Marble Cake Recipes

CHOCOLATE ORANGE MARBLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C or 170°C for a fan oven).
• Grease and flour or line a 9 x 5 x 2½ inch (2 lb) loaf pan.
• Cream the butter in an electric mixer.
• Add the sugar and cream until light and fluffy.
• Beat in the eggs.
• Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together and stir into the batter.
• Divide the batter in half, placing each half in a separate bowl.
• Beat the milk into the first bowl of batter. Then sift in the cocoa powder and beat that in too.
• To the second bowl, add the orange juice and zest. Beat thoroughly.
• Alternate spoonfuls of the mixture in the loaf pan.
• Drag a knife or skewer through the mixture in swirls to create a marble effect. Carefully smooth the top of the batter, without disturbing the marbling.
• Bake for 45 to 55 minutes until a skewer inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean.
• Cool the cake in the tin for ten minutes and then turn out and cool on a rack until completely cool.
• Melt the dark chocolate in a double boiler and drizzle over the cake. Allow the chocolate glaze to set.
• Put the icing sugar in a bowl and gradually add orange juice until a thick but drizzle-able consistency is reached. (You will need about 1 to 2 tablespoons of juice.)
• Drizzle the orange glaze over the cake. Allow the glaze to set.
• Cut the cake in slices to serve.

CHOCOLATE ORANGE MARBLE CAKE

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.

CHOCOLATE MARBLE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Grease a 20cm cake tin and line the bottom with a circle of greaseproof paper.
• If you want to make life easy, simply put 225g butter, 225g caster sugar, 4 eggs, 225g self-raising flour, 3 tbsp milk and 1 tsp vanilla extract into a food processor and whizz for 1-2 mins until smooth.
• If you prefer to mix by hand, beat 225g butter and 225g caster sugar together, then add 4 eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
• Fold through 225g self-raising flour, 3 tbsp milk and 1 tsp vanilla extract until the mixture is smooth.
• Divide the mixture between 2 bowls. Stir 2 tbsp cocoa powder into the mixture in one of the bowls. Take 2 spoons and use them to dollop the chocolate and vanilla cake mixes into the tin alternately.
• When all the mixture has been used up (and if young kids are doing this, you'll need to ensure the base of the tin is fairly evenly covered), tap the bottom on your work surface to ensure that there aren't any air bubbles.
• Take a skewer and swirl it around the mixture in the tin a few times to create a marbled effect.
• Bake the cake for 45-55 mins until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Turn out onto a cooling rack and leave to cool. Will keep for 3 days in an airtight container or freeze for up to 3 months.

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.