Deluxe Marble Cake

My grandmother loved to make marble cake.  And she was so excited to serve it.  I thought this recipe came from her, it was cut out of a magazine and glued on a recipe card.  Something she would do.  But the recipe calls for a springform pan and I am not sure my grandma had one.  Of course I am sure she could figure out how to do this cake in another pan.

Deluxe Marble Cake

Ingredients

2 squares unsweetened chocolate
1 1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 cups flour
3/4 cup evaporated milk
3 eggs
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp orange extract
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
confectioners' sugar

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Grease well a 9 inch springform pan.

In a small saucepan over very low heat, melt chocolate and 1/4 cup sugar with water, stirring.  Stir in vanilla; cool.

Into large bowl, measure 1 cup sugar and all ingredients except chocolate mixture and confectioners' sugar.

With mixer at low speed, beat until well mixed, constantly scraping bowl; at high speed beat 5 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally.  Remove 2 1/2 cups batter.

Beat chocolate mixture into remaining batter; alternately spoon plain and chocolate batters into pan.

With knife, cut through batter a few times, then bake 55-60 minutes (top will be cracked).

Cool in pan on rack 10 minutes; remove sides of pan and cool cake on rack.

Sprinkle top of cooled cake lightly with some confectioners' sugar.