Marble Loaf Cake

While I have made this next cake quite often, when I was writing this post, this cake was intended for my dear sister, whom I am going to meet after like a zillion years (actually it’s just two). The one’s got a mix of both vanilla & chocolate flavour & that is one of the reason that helps me out whenever I am confused to bake a chocolate cake or vanilla cake. This one can be baked either in a square or Bundt pan. Recipe by:  Dorie Greenspan

Ingredients

• 170 gms of Unsalted Butter, softened at room temperature
• 1 cup  Granulated Sugar
• 4 Eggs
• ½  cup of Whole Milk
• 1 tsp. of Vanilla Essence
• ¼  tsp. of Baking Powder
• 2 cups of All Purpose Flour + 2 tbsp.
• 4 oz of semi-sweet chocolate melted

 Preheat the oven to 200°C, spray a 9*5*3 inch loaf pan with non-stick spray and set aside. Line with a parchment paper.

In a small bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder and salt, set aside.

In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until very creamy, add the eggs, one at a time, and continue to mix until you have a nice thick and pale colour. Add vanilla.

 Alternately add the flour mixture in 3 additions and the milk in 2 (begin with the dry ingredients), mixing only until each addition is incorporated.

Divide the batter in half. Add melted chocolate into one half.

Drop spoonful of dark and light batter randomly into the pan, and then plunge a spatula/butter knife deep into the batter and zigzag through the batter not more than 5 times.

Bake the cake for about 1 hour and 15-20 minutes until a toothpick inserted in to the centre comes out clean. Allow to cool completely before inverting onto a platter.