Cakes #206 and #207 - Chocolate Feast

Tuesday Chocolate Feast!

#206 White Chocolate Mud Cake with Almond.

#207 Marble Cake.

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 White Chocolate Mud Cake with Almond

150 g butter
100 g white chocolate
250 ml caster sugar
125 g ground almond
½ tsp baking powder
3 eggs

1. Preheat the oven to 170 C and grease and flour a 22 cm springform cake pan.
2. Melt butter and chocolate together and beat in sugar.
3. Fold in the flour mixed with baking powder and eggs.
4. Pour into cake pan and bake in the oven for about 40 minutes so that the middle of the cake is still a little moist.
5. Let cool in the pan before placing the cake on a serving plate.

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Marble Cake

300 g butter
400 ml granulated sugar
4 eggs
600 ml plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
150 ml cream

100 g dark chocolate
3 tbsp cocoa powder

1. Preheat oven to 175 C and grease and flour  a 2-litre bundt cake pan.
2. Combine flour and baking powder in a bowl.
3. Cream together butter and sugar.
4. Mix in eggs.
5. Add the dry ingredients together and the cream and mix well.
6. Melt the chocolate.
7. Take about 1/3 of the cake mixture and fold in the melted chocolate and sieve in the cocoa powder.
8. Fill the cake pan with the plain and chocolate cake mixtures alternately to get the marble effect. If you want to create a proper marble effect take a skewer and swirl it around the mixture in the pan.
9. Bake the cake 50-60 minutes in the oven and let cool on a rack before removing from the pan.