Marble Cake

And I’m alive! Sorry for Chocolate Month aka April, I had some recipes planed, but life got really busy, lots of clients lots of photoshoots… I want to be more organized and make time for this blog! So I got a nice Marble Cake for you guys! I hope it will make up for the lack of news…

I learned how to bake a marble cake when I was about 8 years old. This was the second recipe I’ve ever bake (the first one was Madeleines). It’s a traditional cake that we eat in France for the “goûter” (4pm snack) or at breakfast. It goes well with tea and coffee. I love the simplicity of marble cakes, they are so easy to do but produce a bit more dishes to wash than the average cake.

Recipe

Marble Cake

2019-05-08 16:12:00

Serves 10

A simple cake for an afternoon tea or at breakfast!

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Prep Time

30 min

Cook Time

1 hr

Total Time

1 hr 30 min

Prep Time

30 min

Cook Time

1 hr

Total Time

1 hr 30 min

Ingredients

1. 200g flour
2. 200g caster sugar
3. 115g butter soft at room temperature
4. 3 eggs
5. 10cL whole milk (semi skimmed milk is fine)
6. 1/2tsp baking powder
7. 60g melted dark chocolate
8. 1tbsp vanilla paste

Instructions

1. Heat oven 160ºC/320ºF
2. Whisk sugar and egg yolk until it's white and foamy.
3. Add flour, milk,butter, and baking powder and mix together.
4. In an other bowl, whip egg whites in a frim mousse with an electric mixer.
5. Carefully incorporate withe egg mousse with the doh.
6. Divide it in 2 equal parts. Add vanilla paste in one and melted dark chocolate in the other.
7. Alternatively pour the white doh with the chocolate doh in a cake mold making layers. It's OK if it's not regular.
8. Bake in the oven for about an hour.

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Photoshoot

I wanted to play a bit and recreate a fake kitchen for this photoshoot. In the end, I only used one photo of the wider views because I think the tighter photos work better. Also, look at the cake texture and the pattern! It’s always a surprise, you never know what you’re going to get.

This marble cake is really warm in colour so I used cold colours props and background. I like that the tea is in the same colour range as the cake. They go well together surrounded by cold whites/grey.

The photoshoot was fun, I tried to change my compositions a bit and create more empty space. I often think that my photo are too stuffed, they don’t breath enough.