Marble cake

In continuation with weekend baking series , this week I tried out a recipe from Simple Home Baking- by Carol Pastor.This recipe brought back memories of a cake I used to love when I was in India. In India, we get a brand of cakes called as Milka Wonder cake. The line of cakes were released around the time I was in school. All of us loved it. Though it was the first brand of cakes that were packed with an expiry date, the cake slices were soft and tasty.Usually the cake was a combination of two flavours, chocolate and vanilla or orange and vanilla. The colour contrast attracted all the kids and parents too, to fall in love with them.When I saw the marble cake recipe with two different layers, I had to try it. For the chocolate layer I used cocoa and powdered chocolate chips and cofee powder. All three ingredients add more taste to the layer.

Marble Cake

All purpose flour- 2 cups

Baking powder- 1 tsp

Milk-1/3 cup

Eggs -2 (large)

Veg oil-1/2 cup

Granulated white sugar-1 cup

Unsweetened cocoa powder-1/3 cup

Chocolate chips coarsely powdered-1/4 cup

Coffee powder-1 tsp

Vanilla Extract-1 tsp

Salt-1/2 tsp

We are going to prepare 2 layers of batter for the cake.

Vanilla layer

1. In a bowl, whisk the veg oil and sugar together.
2. Add the eggs one by one and whisk them until they are light and fluffy.
3. With the above mixture,sift flour,baking powder and salt. Add the milk and mix them using a spatula until they are well blended.
4. Transfer half of the batter to a second bowl.In the first half add the vailla extract and blend with the spatula gently.

Chocolate layer

1. Take the second bowl of batter and add the coocoa, coffee powder and powdered chocolate chips and blend using a spatula.

Preparing the Cake

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees C.
2. Grease a medium loaf pan. Pour half of vanilla layer batter into the pan and spread evenly.
3. Pour in the chocolate layer batter over the vanilla layer.
4. Pour the remaining vanilla layer batter over the chocolate layer.
5. Using a knfe, gently swirl in so that the vanilla and chocolate are mixed. Do not swirl a lot.
6. Bake the cake for 50- 60 min. Remove when the toothpick tester inserted comes clean.

Cool for 30 min.
Serve slices of marble cake.