Marble cake
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Preparation : 35 min
Cooking : 1 h 
Total time : 1 h 35 Rest : 0 min
12 people
370 g plain flour
1 tbsp of baking powder
1 pinch salt
1 vanilla pod
300 g of butter
40 g of cocoa powder
70 ml of milk
5 eggs
250 g of sugar
50 g of dark chocolate
Associated products
Tips
You can add a fine dusting of castor sugar before serving.
RECIPE STEPS
1
Heat oven to 180°C.
Grease tin.
2
Roughly chop the butter and put it into the metal bowl. Run the program to soften the butter.
- 300 g of butter
Expert
01:00 / 5 / __°C
3
Add 40ml milk, the vanilla pod (split in two and scraped) and the other ingredients.
Run the program.
- 370 g plain flour
- 1 tbsp of baking powder
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 vanilla pod
- 70 ml of milk
- 5 eggs
- 250 g of sugar
Pastry/Cake
01:30 / 12 /
4
Put half the mixture into tin and leave other half in bowl.
5
Add 30ml milk and the cocoa powder into the metal bowl and run the program.
- 40 g of cocoa powder
Pastry/Cake
01:30 / 12 /
6
Pour the chocolate cake mixture on top of cake mixture already in tin and swirl with a fork to create a marble effect.
7
Cook cake for 50 minutes at 180°C.
8
Before removing cake from oven, insert a skewer into centre. The cake is cooked when the skewer comes out clean.
Turn out onto a cooking rack and leave to cool.
9
Clean the metal bowl and then melt the chocolate in it by running the program.
- 50 g of dark chocolate
Expert
10:00 / 0 / 55°C
10
Spread the icing on cake.
The cake is ready to eat as soon as icing has hardened.
© photos Sandra Mahut © 2017 Hachette Livre (Marabout)
