Marble Cake

Chocolate is fun to use in baking but the quality of your chocolate ingredients determine outcome of your dish. The marble cake recipe is not very unusual as such but the fact that for me it works only when I use either eggs or condensed milk. I am slightly disappointed with the results I got using curd. It could be because I used home made curd which is very watery





Ingredients
2 cups APF
1 1/4 cup Castor Sugar
200 gms condensed milk
2 tbsp cocoa powder
2 tbsp milk
1 1/4 cup butter
1 tspn vanilla extract
1 tspn baking powder
1/8 tspn baking soda
Method
1) Cream the butter and sugar until it is light and airy 
2) Add the condensed milk, vanilla extract and beat again
3) In another bowl, mix the APF with baking powder and soda and set aside.
4) Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix gradually using a spatula.
5) Remove about half of the batter in another bowl. Add the cocoa powder and milk and mix it well
6) Use the round baking tin of 8 inch size. Grease the base and dust with some flour
7) Now using 2 spoons of same size, add one spoon of white batter in the centre of the tin. Next top one spoon of cocoa batter. Alternately repeat until you use one batter. When you keep the tin tilted with a couple of coins beneath one side, you will get the shape I got, offcentre pattern.
You may create swirls or pattern using toothpick etc. 
8) Bake in a preheated oven for 20 min at 180c Check the centre with a tooth pick or knife. If it comes out clean you can remove and let it cool down

I topped it with chocolate ganache as this was a gift to my neighbour's daughter on her birthday








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Comments

Unknown said…
Delicious marble cake... The design is very good..
Kalyani said…
U r right pradnya ! I used condensed milk and it works be coz of the starch it contains. But I have seen videos using curd too (trying using hung curd or Greek yoghurt or nestle masti dahi types). That swirl on top is great !!
Usha said…
You got a nice pattern for the marble cake. Chocolate ganache topping sounds yum!
Suma Gandlur said…
It is fun to see the swirly patterns when you cut open a marble cake. Your cake is looking soft and moist.
Pavani said…
Your zebra cake looks yummy to me, especially with the chocolate frosting and strawberry on top :-)
Srivalli said…
Ah the marble cake has turned out so good..wish there was a slice for us to enjoy too..:)
Love the first click,the cake got a very nice marble effect..
Priya Suresh said…
Can see the pattern of your marble cake super prefect, well done pradnya.
The classic swirls of the marble make the cake very fancy. I have wanted to try this cake for a whole now. Love the look of it.
Srividhya said…
Lovely Marble cake. Very nice
Perfect marble swrils!! Awesome dear!!
Love those spiral swirls, they make the cake look so attractive, tempting one!
Gayathri Kumar said…
Awesome patterns on top Pradnya. I always make it with condensed milk. Curd ones turn out very moist for me...
Beautiful cake!!!The swirl on top is gorgeous!!
The cake looks lovely!

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