Recipe

Mandarin Marble Loaf Recipe


Mandarin Marble Loaf Recipe
MANDARIN MARBLE LOAF This recipe came from an estate sale. I obtained it when I purchased the family collection from the Stewart Estate in Quinlan, Texas in 1994.

Chefmeow

 Does this look good? Yeah! / Nope
Fans
Ingredients
  • 4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 3 tablespoons warm vegetable oil
  • Cake:
  • 1 cup vegetable oil
  • 2-1/4 cups granulated sugar
  • 5 eggs
  • 4 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1 cup undiluted frozen orange juice defrosted
  • Zest of 1 orange finely minced
  • 3-1/4 cups all purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 3-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup finely grated semisweet chocolate
  • Topping:
  • 1 cup confectioners' sugar
  • 6 tablespoons orange juice
  • Long shreds of orange zest

Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 then generally grease 2 loaf pans and line bottom with parchment paper.
  2. Prepare chocolate paste by placing cocoa and oil in a small bowl and blending well.
  3. Add a drop or more of oil if mixture appears too stiff or thick to stir or blend easily.
  4. For cake blend oil with sugar until light and fluffy scraping bowl often.
  5. Blend in the eggs and stir in the vanilla, water, orange juice and zest.
  6. In a separate bowl whisk together flour, soda, baking powder and salt.
  7. Add to wet ingredients then remove one third of the batter to a small bowl.
  8. Stir chocolate paste into this to make a chocolate batter and add grated chocolate.
  9. Spoon alternating portions of batters into prepared pan then bake 40 minutes.
  10. Cool in the pan 20 minutes before inverting onto a wire rack.
  11. Stir together confectioners' sugar and orange juice to make a thick but pourable sauce.
  12. Drizzle this over top of loaves then garnish with zest.

Recent Gawkers
Not quite what you're looking for? See more Bread / Fruit Breads
Comments
No comments yet


Add a Comment
You must be logged in to comment on a recipe. Login
Alterations
No alterations yet


Suggest an Alteration
You must be logged in to suggest a recipe alteration. Login
Viewing Mandarin Marble Loaf Recipe

Tool Box

url
Print Recipe
Email it
Send Recipe to Cell Phone
Login to Add a Note [?]
Login to Save this [?]
Subscribe to chefmeow [?]
Flag as Interesting/Unique [?]
Add to Comparison Queue [?]

Flavors

Login to Add Flavor Tags [?]

Ratings & Honors

5

You need to be logged in to rate a recipe.

Groups

This recipe belongs to the following groups:
This recipe isn't in any groups
You need to be logged in to add a recipe to a group

Related Menus