Christmas Calendar 2019 Day 5 - Marble cake with Christmas twist

I have found this recipe on marble cake in the weekly magazine Søndag issue 46/2019. I decided to made various changes to the original recipe. To the plain version I decided to made the zest of an orange as well as some orange flower water. In the dark chocolate version I decided to exchange the dark with dark milk chocolate, as I dislike dark chocolate due to it's bitter taste.

As another suggestion on marble cake you could also look at this liquorice marble cake.

Marble cake with Christmas twist: - 1 cake

• 250 g soft butter
• 250 g icing sugar
• 1 nip salt
• 250 g wheat flour
• 5 eggs
• 7 g baking powder
• 1 organic orange - only the zest
• ½ teaspoon orange flower water
• 100 g dark milk chocolate - melted
• icing sugar - for decoration

1. Heat up the oven to 180'C.
2. Add soft butter and icing sugar into a mixing bowl.
3. Whip it into a light foam.
4. Add in the baking powder, eggs and wheat flour into the mixing bowl. Whip into a homogeneous mass.
5. Divide the cake dough into 1/3 and 2/3.
6. Add the melted chocolate into the smaller part of the cake dough, stir until it is homogeneous mass.
7. Stir in the orange zest and orange flower water into the larger part of the cake dough.
8. Add half of the plain orange cake into the cake form.
9. Add the darker chocolate cake dough on top in the cake form.
10. Finally fill the remaining plain orange cake dough on top.
11. Use a knife or spoon to mix around in the cake dough to create a marble colour structure.
12. Lower the temperature to 170'C.
13. Place the cake in the lower part of the oven.
14. Bake the cake at 170'C for 60-70 minutes.
15. Check the cake is baked, before it is taken out of the oven.
16. Cool down the cake before serving it.
17. Sprinkle with icing sugar prior to serving.