Chocolate Orange Marble Cake

You know the chocolate oranges or those chocolate orange sticks you can get at Christmas time? This is those in cake form. It is SO good! Like eat-it-slowly-and-savor-each-bite good.

Cameron wanted a marble cake for his birthday and when I Googled recipes I was surprised to find that many of them were from international sites. Who knew that marble cakes were an international thing? Others were baked as a loaf. Not what I was looking for. So I was glad when I found this and it sounded delicious. And it was!

Image from Blackbookkitchendiaries

Chocolate Orange Marble Cake
1 c. butter, softened
1 c. white sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
3/4 c. vanilla yogurt
3 T. orange zest (one large orange)
3 T. orange juice
1 3/4 c. all purpose flour
3/4 tsp. baking soda
3/4 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
2 oz. unsweetened or semi-sweet chocolate, melted

Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour two round cake pans.

In a mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Add the vanilla, yogurt, orange zest and juice; mix well.

Sift the dry ingredients together and stir into the wet mixture just until combined. Scoop half of the batter into another bowl. Mix the melted chocolate into one of the bowls of batter. Spoon some of each batter into the cake pans. The batter is thick, so just put scoops of each flavor all around the pans. Using a knife, swirl the two batters together and make sure it is spread to cover the bottom of the pan.

Bake for 25-30 minutes.

We frosted ours with chocolate buttercream, but the site where I got it suggested ganache, which would make it super rich but really yummy too, I'm sure!

Adapted slightly from  Blackbookkitchendiaries.wordpress.com