Marble Cake

We had a few friends coming over for dinner and I thought I’d bake a cake for dessert. First thing that came to my mind was ‘Brownies’. But then somehow I was reminded of Marble cake and how I never tried it. Besides, ‘Navratri’ was going on and I didn’t want to use any eggs. So I looked up a few recipes and stuck to the following one (adapted from ‘Sharmis Passions’).

Ingredients

All Purpose Flour/ Maida – 1 ¼ cups

Milk Powder – 3 tbsp.

Unsalted Butter – ½ cup/ 1 stick

Baking Soda – ¾ tsp.

Sugar – 1 cup

Milk – 1 cup

Vanilla Essence – 1 tsp.

Cocoa Powder – 2 tbsp.

Hot Water – 2 tbsp.

Salt – A pinch (if using unsalted butter)

Yield – 26 – 28 medium sized pieces

Method

1. In a large bowl, mix together butter (melted/ at room temp), sugar and beat until the mixture becomes fluffy and creamy.

2. Add in milk, milk powder and vanilla essence and mix the ingredients properly.

                                       

3. In another bowl, sift together flour, salt and baking soda.

4. Mix in dry ingredients with wet ingredients and beat until the mixture becomes nice creamy and smooth.

5. Take a small portion of the batter (about 1/4^th) and mix it with cocoa powder and hot powder in a separate bowl.

6. Preheat the oven at 350 degrees F/ 175 degrees C.

7. In the meanwhile, take a cake pan and grease it with butter and dust it with flour.

8. Pour in the creamy batter on to the cake pan. Now pour in the chocolate batter in small portions (circular spots) over the creamy batter.

9. With the help of a fork, mix in both the batters slightly. The pattern should look like that of ripples’.

10. Place the cake pan in to the oven and bake for about 20 – 22 minutes or until a toothpick pricked in comes out clean.

11. Let the cake cool down completely and cut it in to desired shape and number of pieces.