Chocolate and Orange Marble Cake with Chocolate Sauce and Roasted Almond and Pistachio...

Another home fellowship challenge... Late on a thursday nite, my hubby kindly asked/informed me to make a cake for the next day's HF because it was Fiona and Kitty's birthday. Ummm.... what can I whip up something quick? What's there in my pantry?!?! Found some chocolate, cocoa, eggs, orange, butter and cream in the fridge. Ok... it's chocolate and orange marble cake! 

Ingredients:

330ml milk

380g sugar 

1 tsp vanilla extract

250g butter, melted

225g plain flour, sifted

40g SR flour, sifted

2 eggs

20g cocoa

150g dark chocolate

1 tbsp grated orange rind

1. Preheat oven to 160C. Place the milk, sugar and vanilla in a bowl and whisk to combine.

2. Add butter and whisk to combine. Then whisk in  flours and eggs until smooth. 

3. Divide mixture into 2 bowls. Add cocoa and chocolate into one. Whisk until smooth. Add orange rind into the other and whisk until smooth. 

4. Pour the chocolate mixture into a well greased 2L Bundt tin. Drop spoonfuls of orange mixture onto the chocolate and gently sirl with a butter knife to create marble effect. 

5. Bake for 1hr10min or until cooked when tested with a skewer. Cool in tin for 10min. Turn out on a wire rack to cool. 

To jazz up the cake a little. I made a chocolate fudge sauce and found some almonds and pistachio in the pantry, so I toasted them as well. 

To make the chocolate fudge sauce, I simply just placed the chocolate and cream in a saucepan over low heat and cook. Stirring until melted and smooth. Depends how fudgy you want the sauce to be, you can just adjust the proportion of chocolate and cream. 

After the cake is completely cooled, pour the chocolate sauce on top, and let it run freely down the side of the cake. Sprinkle with the toasted nuts on top... =) 

The good thing about drizzling chocolate sauce on top is... it hides ALL the imperfections!!!!! haha... 

Sometimes you're surprised how simple the ingredients needed to whip up something so delicious and presentable! And the best thing about this recipe is, it doesn't require much effort, no creaming of butter, no excessive beating, JUST MIX AND WHISK! Love this simple action! 

Thanks to my hubby for this late thursday nite challenge!