Chocolate Orange Marble Cake #CakeSliceBakers

 December is always free choice month for the Cake Slice Bakers. Some years I know early on which cake I'll bake in December; other years I find myself flipping pages, looking for a recipe that calls my name. This year was the second kind. I was looking for a cake that was something I hadn't made before and that I had all the ingredients on hand. I finally settled on the Chocolate Orange Marble cake. The recipe has you make one batter, divide it into two sections, and then flavor one with melted chocolate and the other with orange. You then put the orange batter in a loaf pan, top it with the chocolate, and use a spoon to try to marble it. After baking, you slowly add an orange flavored simple syrup to the cake while it's still hot. Once cool, remove from the pan, slice, and enjoy.



This is a delicious and fairly easy-to-make cake. Both the chocolate and the orange flavors were present, one not overwhelming the other. I opted for dark chocolate (70% cocoa), but you could certainly use a lighter chocolate if that's more to your taste. The cake was extremely moist, and stayed moist for the two days we continued to enjoy leftovers.

It wasn't super marbled, but since using a spoon didn't work for any better for me than when I've used a knife or chopstick, I'm pretty sure it's a matter of my technique.




Next month brings a new book full of tasty recipes. See you then!



Each month The Cake Slice Bakers are offered a selection of cakes from the current book we are baking through. This year it is Gâteau: The Surprising Simplicity of French Cakes by Aleksandra Crapanzano. We each choose one cake to bake, and then on the 20th - never before - we all post about our cake on our blogs. There are a few rules that we follow, but the most important ones are to have fun and enjoy baking & eating cakes!

Follow our Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest pages where you can find all of our cakes, as well as inspiration for many other cakes. You can also click on the links below to take you to each of our cakes. If you have a blog and are interested in joining The Cake Slice Bakers and baking along with us, please send an email to thecakeslicebakers at gmail dot com for more details.

The Cake Slice Bakers also have a new Facebook group called The Cake Slice Bakers and Friends. This group is perfect for those who do not have a blog but want to join in the fun and bake through this book.




This is our last cake from Gâteau: The Surprising Simplicity of French Cakes, which we have enjoyed baking through. Stay tuned as we will be announcing the next cake-centric book we will be baking through in 2023 soon!

Traditionally our last bake for the year is free choice, and our choices for December 2023 were ~

Raspberry Clafoutis
Berry Cake
Walnut Espresso Cake
Chocolate Orange Marble Cake
Kings of the Epiphany Galette

Comments

  1. KarenDecember 20, 2023 at 2:06 PM

    I have so many cakes still bookmarked! This is one of them. Great to hear that it stays nice and moist.

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  2. SusanBDecember 21, 2023 at 9:21 AM

    This is one I'd like to make. Chocolate and orange - yum!

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