Marble Cake

Beginner - Less than 1 hour - Complete

Keywords :

Heart patterns - Chocolate - Sweet creative cooking - St-Valentine's Day - Vanille - Cakes and pastries

Need an idea for some Valentine’s Day baking? Check out Alimonia’s delicious marble cake recipe. A vanilla chocolate marble cake baked into a heart-shape and decorated in colors sure to get you into the romantic mood!

Supplies

Tools

Heart-shaped cake tin
2 mixing bowls
Knife
Measuring cup
Oven
Wire cooling rack

Materials

250g of flour
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
150g butter, softened
150g caster sugar
2 eggs
120 ml of milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
40g cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon red food coloring
A pinch of salt

Directions

Preheat the oven to 180º.
Grease the heart-shaped cake tin.
Mix the flour, baking powder and salt in a mixing bowl.
Add the eggs one at a time to the sugar and beat until pale and creamy. Alternate with adding glugs of milk.
Add the vanilla extract.
Separate the batter into two bowls.
To one bowl of batter, add the cocoa powder and mix well.
To the other bowl of batter, add the red food coloring and mix well.
Fill the cake tin, adding a bit of each mixture at a time.
Gently make figure-of-eight shapes with the tip of a knife in the batter to give a marble effect.
Cook for 35-40 minutes.
Leave to cool for 5 minutes and then turn the cake out onto a wire cooling rack.
Decorate the cake however you want: sugar hearts, chocolate hearts ... Use your imagination!