Chocolate orange marble cake

Chocolate orange marble cake

For a deliciously nostalgic cake, combine a classic flavour combination of orange and chocolate in this retro two-tone bake

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Recipe by Caroline Hire

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Cuts into 10 slices

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 15 mins

Cook time

Cook 55 mins

Method

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Bake the cake for 45 - 55 mins until golden and risen, and a skewer poked in comes out clean.
  5. 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.

PER SERVING

397 kcalories, protein 5.6g, carbohydrate 41.5g, fat 23.1 g, saturated fat 13.7g, fibre 1.6g, sugar 26.1g, salt 0.7 g

Recipe from bbcgoodfood.com, February 2013.

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  • 07 March 2013

    Arose91 rated and commented on this recipe

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    Delicious!

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  • 12 March 2013

    Pumpkinpie rated and commented on this recipe

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    Very nice maybe a bit too buttery for my liking. I omitted the orange flavour and just used plain dark choc for topping. All in all, thumbs up!

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  • 13 March 2013

    cake expectations commented on this recipe

    Not made this particular cake but have made a great chocolate orange marble cake before from the blog below. I've found cocoa powder can make marble cakes really dry, but in the recipe I follow, some oil is added to the batter to compensate and then an orange drizzle is seeped into the baked cake to make it really moist. A chocolate ganaches is then poured over it all, just for extra decadence! It's SO good! http://www.cupofteasolveseverything.com/2012/09/chocolate-orange-marble-cake.html

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  • 16 March 2013

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  • 22 March 2013

    Marian3009 commented on this recipe

    I think it is a great cake, I'll do, I'm sure. But it doesn't need baking powder? I think so...

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  • 24 March 2013

    imfeelingmad rated and commented on this recipe

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    Made this for work colleagues, it turned out great! I used a round cake tin and it took less time to cook (about 35mins) and it was a great consistency and tasted great too, the orange flavour worked really well. Great recipe, can recommend it!

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  • 24 March 2013

    Jayesh rated this recipe

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  • 09 April 2013

    Frantic Flapjack rated and commented on this recipe

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    A lovely cake with good flavour. The marble effect made it a little bit different.

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  • 18 April 2013

    Melinda rated and commented on this recipe

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    Made the cake for my colleagues - my popularity just rose to the skies. :) Lovely cake and so easy to prepare - recommended.

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  • 22 April 2013

    Epidote rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    I made this earlier to use up a slightly sorry looking orange. It took longer than the stated cooking time in my oven, but that might be because I chopped up half a bar of chocolate and added that to the chocolate half. It's nice, it could do with a slightly larger orange hit. Next time I might top it with an orange drizzle.

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  • 27 April 2013

    Niamh commented on this recipe

    I made this yesterday and my family loved it. The marble effect was brilliant. It was so yummy it's all gone now! I had to bake it for 70 minutes in the end but it was worth the wait. I will definitely make this again.

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  • 08 May 2013

    Anita rated and commented on this recipe

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    Really lovely could really taste the chocolate and orange will defo be making it again x

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Cuts into 10 slices

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 15 mins

Cook time

Cook 55 mins

Ingredients

  • 225g very soft butter , plus extra for greasing
  • 225g caster sugar
  • 225g self-raising flour
  • 4 large eggs , beaten
  • 2 tbsp milk
  • 3 tbsp cocoa powder , sifted
  • 1 large orange , zest and 1 tbsp orange juice
  • a few drops orange food colouring (optional)
  • 50g orange chocolate (we used Green & Black's Maya Gold), broken into pieces
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PER SERVING

397 kcalories, protein 5.6g, carbohydrate 41.5g, fat 23.1 g, saturated fat 13.7g, fibre 1.6g, sugar 26.1g, salt 0.7 g

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