Chocolate Vanilla Marble Bundt Cake

My first cake of the year will need to be corrected at a later date but I'd still serve the cake as is, I'd just choose to serve it with ice cream. Orange sherbet was a perfect addition, the chocolate/orange combination is always a favorite of mine.

The reason the ice cream makes this cake a win is that the vanilla part of the marble cake was a little dry.

Ingredients:
2 1/4 cup flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup butter, plus 2 tbs. softened
1 1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tablespoon, plus 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 cup buttermilk
2/3 cup chocolate syrup
3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate morsels

1. Bring eggs and butter to room temperature. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Use cooking spray to grease 10 inch bundt pan and lightly coat with flour.

It helps to do all of this with this cute little face standing by:

3. In a medium bowl mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.  Set aside.

4. In your mixing bowl beat 3/4 cup butter and 1 1/2 cup sugar together on low speed.  Add eggs one at a time, followed by vanilla and beat until fluffy, scraping the bowl frequently.

5. Add half of flour mixure and half of buttermilk, beat on medium until mixed completely.  Then add the remainder of butter milk and flour mix until combined.  Reserve two cups of batter.  Pour the rest of the batter into your prepared pan.

6. Add chocolate syrup to the reserved batter and mix.

7. Layer chocolate batter over vanilla batter in the pan.  Do not mix.

8. Bake at 350 degrees fro 50 minutes or until and inserted toothpick comes out clean.  Cook for 15 minutes on wire rack.

9. Remove from pan and cool completely on a wire rack.

10. In a microwave safe batter bowl combine chocolate chips, 2 tbls. butter, 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla and microwave in 20 second intervals mixing in between. Drizzle chocolate over your cooled bundt cake.

And eat.