Yesterday was my mom's birthday and the whole family went to "The Keg" for dinner. The steak is really very good there (and I'm not much of a red meat eater so that is saying something).
We came back to our house for tea and dessert. I baked this marble cake (of course the mix of the plain and chocolate cake makes everyone happy). For the occasion, I broke out out the piping bag, but in order to use up the icing, a lot of sugar stars ended up on that cake!
The cake is very easy and quite moist and delicious. I based the recipe on one from BBC Good Food magazine. Some of the measurements are by weight, but investing in a food scale is a good idea. I resisted this purchase for many years (it seemed too complicated) but for some reason I gravitate toward British food authors and those recipes use weight measurements. I finally gave in about a year ago and bought one for $8 at Kitchen Stuff Plus.
I baked this in a bundt pan instead of the 8" cake pan stated in the recipe, and decreased the baking time. I have also baked it in two small loaf pans (one to eat and one to freeze). I used my fab-u-lous Kitchen Aid (thanks again Mom and Dad) to mix it up.
Marble Cake (inspired by a recipe in BBC Good Food March 2008)
225 g butter, softened (this time I cut the butter into cubes and left it for 30 minutes)
225g white sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
225g flour
1 tsp baking powder
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons cocoa powder
*Preheat oven to 350F. Butter a bundt pan. Cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Add half the flour then the milk followed by the rest of the flour. Drop the batter by spoonfuls into the prepared pan until half the batter is tranferred. To the rest of the batter mix in the cocoa powder and then drop the chocolate batter into the pan. Use a knife held vertically to pass through the batter in the pan to creat the "marble" effect. Bake for about 30 minutes.
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