Chocolate Orange Marble Cake

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chocolate Orange Marble Cake




Shopping List:

225 gr butter, softened
225 gr caster sugar  ( instead of sugar you could use a Stevia product)
225 gr self-raising flour
4 large eggs, beaten
2 tablespoons of milk
3 tablespoons of cocoa powder
1 Large Orange, the zest and 1 tablespoon of the orange juice of it
50 gr of chocolate, can be chocolate orange,
i used 69% ordinary and some orange juice mixed as a drizzle choc.


Preheat your oven to 180C.  Grease or spray and line your loaf tin.

Mix your butter, sugar, eggs and flour together in a large bowl until it's a smooth mixture.

Divide the mixture into two bowls, mix the milk and the cocoa powder into the one and the orange juice and zest into the other mixture. ( You can add orange food colouring here if you want to).

Use a spoon to make alternate dollops into your prepared cake tin. Use a skewer to go gently left to right to get a marblelesque pattern swirling it about in the mixture. Don't overmix as then you will not see a pattern. Even the mixture out on top if it needs to.

Bake your cake in your preheated oven for 45-55 minutes until you can see it is golden and risen.
Use the skewer again and poke it in to see if it comes out clean. If not, give it another 5 minutes or so.

Leave the cake in the tin to cool completely and then turn it out. Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pan with hot water, stirring occasionally. I then poured a little orange juice into it and stirred again.
Use your spoon to drizzle the chocolate over the cake. Let the chocolate harden before you slice it.
Not too small a piece each though.

The cake is also wonderful without its trimmings!




                                                               "Enjoy"