Chocolate orange marble cake

Orange Chocolate Marble Cake

I wanted to add this recipe long before but on a second thought waited till the 100^th recipe. This super moist cake is a match made in heaven with the flavors of both orange and chocolate. I made it in a 10 inch Bundt cake pan. The amount given in this recipe gives you 12 servings.

Ingredients

·         All-purpose flour-1 ¾ cup

·         Baking powder-3/4 tsp.

·         Baking powder -3/4 tsp.

·         Salt -1/4 tsp.

·         Granulated sugar-1 ¼ cup

·         Butter -1 cup

·         Egg -3 Nos.

·         Curd-1 cup

·         Vanilla Essence-1tsp.

·         Orange essence-1tsp.

·         Orange Zest-2tbsp.

·         Orange juice-6tbsp.

·         Dark chocolate-30g

Method

·         Preheat oven at 150 degree Celsius.

·         Powder the sugar and keep aside ¼ cup.  Add the rest with butter taken in a big bowl.

·         Using an electric beater beat it till light and fluffy.

·         Add the eggs one by one and beat it again.

·         Now mix the vanilla essence and then the curd.

·         Add the flour little by little and take out half of the batter another bowl.

·         Melt the chocolate using double boil technique and add this to one of the batter while it is warm and not very hot.

·         Add 2 tbsp of the orange juice, orange essence and zest to the other batter.

·         Now grease a 10 inch Bundt cake pan and put half a cup of each batter alternatively, until all the batter gets over.

·         Using a fork give a zig zag design on the batter and bake it in the hot oven for 40 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean.

·         Boil the rest of the orange juice with quarter cup sugar and pour it over the hot cake and keep the cake for cooling on a wire rack.