Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Best Ever Marble Cake

Sorry about the metric numbers.. if your meassuring cup doesnt have metric meassurements on it then you can just convert it online.

-250 Gramm Butter (soft at room temperature)

-200 Gramm Sugar

-500 Gramm flour (dont use self rising, just the plain simple white flour)

-a few drops vanilla extract

-1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

-1 Pinch Salt
-4 Eggs

-1 Cup Milk
- few drops butter extract
- few drops almond extract
- 1 block 70 or 80% cocoa chocolate (Lindt has a good one)
- 3 tablespoon sugar
- a handful dark chocolate chips or candymelts
- few drops of rum extract
(or.. but the first tastes better....:
-30 Gramm cocoa powder for baking .. its about 5 tablespoons
-3 tablespoons water
-3 tablespoons sugar
- few drops of rum extract)
Mix the butter with the sugar, salt and vanilla until nice and creamy.
Slowly add the eggs. Mix well.
Mix flour with the baking powder and while mixing, slowly add the flour and the milk.. taking turns between milk and flour so the consistency stays smooth.
Add a tiny bit of almond extract (very little, maybe 3-4 drops) and a little butter extract.. maybe 10 drops)
Melt chocolate in a hot water bath (break chocolate up into a cup and set the cup into a pot that has some water on the bottom.
Heat the water and let the chocolate melt like that. Stir occasionally, add the chocolate chips or candy melts when the dark chocolate is smooth and add the sugar as well.)
(If you do the second option then just mix all ingredients until smooth)
Grease a "Kaiser Springform" and pour 3/4 of the dough into it.
Add the chocolate to the remaining dough and also add some rum extract.
I like the rum flavor so I put quite a bit but you can do that to taste.
Mix well.
Pour the dark dough in top of the white one in the Springform. Use a fork and twist the dough so the black slightly mixes into the white.
Bake at 355 degrees for about 60 minutes.
After about 45 minutes I lay a sheet of aluminum foil over it to avoid the cake getting too dark on the outside before the inside is done.
Cake is done when a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.

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