Chocolate & Orange Marble Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup unsalted butter
• 1 1/2-1 3/4 cups sugar,
• 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

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 grease a deep 9-inch tube pan and dust with flour, put aside until needed.
• 3 in a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• 4 next beat in the eggs, one at a time then add vanilla.
• 5 sift together the flour, baking powder and salt.
• 6 add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, alternating with the milk, making 3 additions of dry and 2 of the milk.
• 7 put half the batter in a smaller bowl and stir in the melted chocolate chips and cocoa. mix well.
• 8 stir the orange rind and liquer into the remaining batter.
• 9 pour half the orange batter into the a prepared tube pan.
• 10 then in a random fashion spoon the chocolate batter overtop of the orange batter and finish with the rest of the orange batter.
• 11 swirl a knife, through the batter to create marble effect.
• 12 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.
• 13 let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto wire rack to cool.
• 14 when ready to serve dust with a little icing sugar.