
Marble cake with chocolate icing
Ingredients
- 500g self-raising flour
- 2 1/2 cups sugar
- 250g margarine or butter, plus a little more for greasing the cake mould
- 4 eggs
- 1 1/4 cup milk
- peel from 1 orange, or vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp cocoa
- For the chocolate icing:
- 125g confectioner's chocolate
- 4 tbsp icing sugar
- 2 tbsp milk
- 1 tbsp cognac
- 100g butter, cut into small pieces
Directions
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Beat the margarine or butter together with the sugar in a mixer until white. Add the eggs one by one, and continue mixing for a further 3 minutes. Add the milk, then the flour, and the orange peel or vanilla extract. Mix gently. Set aside 1/3 of the dough, transfer it to another bowl, and mix with the cocoa. Dilute with a little milk if needed.
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Thoroughly grease a cake mould. Add half the (white) cake mixture, then add the cocoa mixture, then add the rest of the cake mixture.
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Carefully dip a thin stick into the cake and move it to give the cake a @marbled@ appearance. Be careful not to mix too much, otherwise the cake will turn out all brown. Bake the cake at 180° C for about 1 hour, depending on your oven.
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Prepare the icing as follows: Melt the chocolate in a water bath, or at very low heat. Add the sugar, milk, and cognac, and mix until smooth. Add the pieces of butter, mixing constantly with a wooden spoon, until you have a glossy and smooth icing. Remove from the heat, leave to cool a little, then ice the cake with it.
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