Food Connect: The Grub Hub: # 25: Marble Chocolate Cake

Marble Cake... Something i am so totally fond of. Apart from the several others things i like and love.

I distinctly remember the color combinations my mother used to make when i was a kid.. sometimes there was pink & blue and sometimes it was just blue and its hues and shades. I was always so amazed at the creativity with which she created such master pieces and i still continue to be. Just one difference now. I somehow have an idea about it! :P

Well! after picking up the basic cake making technique.. its high time to start experimenting.

I was gifted a big slab of Lindt Dark chocolate the other day. I totally love dark chocolates! But with the never ending quest to get an inch closer to loosing the extra inches around the waist... Chocolate feasts are near to extinction! And with my family being so hell bent about not using artificial colors.. What best than to get working on a dark chocolate-vanilla flavored marble cake!

Phew! :D Not like i am exhausted already! ;)

After my last attempt on butter cake, and 95% of my family being completely diabetic and dealing with cholesterol! I had to do some minor changes..so here we go..

Ingredients:

Eggs - 4
All purpose flour - 250 gms (maida)
Sugar - 200 gms
Butter - 200 gms
Baking Powder - 1 tsp
Lindt Dark Chocolate - 1/2 slab (32 pcs)
Vanilla essence - 8 drops
Lime -1

Procedure:

Leave the butter out to melt a bit. If its too firm the blade of the beater will get ruined.
Grind the sugar and keep aside.
Sieve the Maida and baking powder together.
Separate the egg whites and yokes.
Now take the egg white and beat it. Add some ground sugar at regular intervals until it is firm. Such that you can try tossing it over and it would still not fall out or leave any liquid out. Keep aside. Now beat up the yokes in a separate bowl. Squeeze some lime juice into it. And beat well. Keep aside.
Now, beat up the butter a li'l before you add the sugar to it. Add the remaining sugar to the butter and beat well. Always have one direction while beating up. Else its said the cake wont turn out well.. probably due to the air pockets that get created while mixing up. Anyways!
Add the beaten yoke mix to the butter and beat it well.
Now, using a spatula, you need to fold the batter as you add the maida and egg white mix. ( Here you might notice that the egg white is leaving a li'l liquid.. That's perfectly normal and fine...). Continue to add the maida & egg white at regular intervals.. Later add the vanilla essence and fold it as well. (In case the batter it too firm..add 2 tsp of Milk...and fold it together.) Keep aside.
Melt the chocolate and beat it a bit before you add 2 Tbsp of the Vanilla batter. Fold it with the chocolate and don't beat it up.
Grease the cake baking mould with butter and sprinkle maida and spread it around well. Now add some vanilla batter into the mould and also add in some chocolate batter in to it. Such that they are equal parts but not really put in any definite pattern or layer. Using a needle. Mix randomly as per the design you wish to see around...
Bake for 45 mins at 180 degrees. Else in the absence of an oven, bake in a cooker for an hour! (I have been baking my cakes in a pressure cooker lately..and they are just as amazing as they are when baked in an Oven! )

What i did is..put a layer of Chocolate, and over it a layer of vanilla batter... took the needle and spread it around randomly.. This is exactly how it turned out to be when i sliced through! :)