Retro cake recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 55 mins; recipe has butter, caster sugar, self-raising flour, large egg, milk, cocoa powder, orange, food colouring and chocolate.
Chocolate orange marble cake
Course: Retro cake
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Milk: 2 tbsp milk
- Butter: 225g very soft butter, plus extra for greasing
- Orange: 1 large orange, zest and 1 tbsp orange juice
- Caster Sugar: 225g caster sugar
- Self Raising Flour: 225g self-raising flour
- Large Egg: 4 large eggs, beaten
- Cocoa Powder: 3 tbsp cocoa powder, sifted
- Chocolate: 50g orange chocolate (we used Green & Black's Maya Gold), broken into pieces
- Food Colouring: a few drops orange food colouring (optional)
Directions
- 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.
