Chocolate Orange Sour Cream Pound Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 1/4 cup semisweet chocolate, melted and cooled (optional)
• 3/4 cup unsalted butter
• 1 1/3 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup sour cream
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 teaspoons orange oil
• 1 orange, zest of, finely minced (optional)
• 1/4 cup milk
• 3/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 175 g terrys orange-shaped chocolate, minced or 1/2 cup miniature milk chocolate chips
• confectioners' sugar
• variety of melted chocolate
• orange juice
• confectioners' sugar

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 350°f
• 2 generously grease a 9 inch tube pan or bundt cake pan or two 8 by 4 inch, or two 9 by 5 inch loaf pans with non stick cooking spray.
• 3 melt the chocolate and set aside.
• 4 cream the butter and the sugar until fluffy.
• 5 beat in the eggs, sour cream, orange zest and extracts , blending well.
• 6 fold in the dry ingredients, scraping the bottom of the bowl to make sure it is all blended.
• 7 stir in the milk, and then fold in the chocolate.
• 8 remove 1/2 up of the batter and mix with the melted chocolate.
• 9 spoon batter into pan and then drop spoonfuls of the chocolate batter on top of that. swirl briefly with a knife to marbleize.
• 10 bake until cake springs back when lightly touched with fingertips, about 45-65 minutes (depending on pans used).
• 11 dust with confectioners’ sugar or drizzle on melted and dark chocolate or melted milk chocolate.
• 12 alternatively, you can glaze with an orange juice and confectioner’s sugar glaze.