Coffee and Cocoa Marble Cake
Baked in an 7.5 inch square pan
- Prep time
- 14 min
- Cook time
- 31 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 140 g butter
- 6 large eggs
- 150 g sugar
- 1½ tsp vanilla extract
- 170 g plain flour
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 20 g cocoa powder
- 7 g instant coffee granules
Instructions
- 1
Melt butter over the stove.
- 2
Add sugar to a mixing bowl of eggs. Beat until white, fluffy and ribbon stage.
- 3
Add vanilla extract, melted butter and continue mixing.
- 4
Sift plain flour with baking powder and salt and fold into the batter.
- 5
Divide batter into 2 bowls (⅔ and ⅓).
- 6
Mix cocoa powder and instant coffee granules together.
- 7
Add just enough hot water to make it into a paste.
- 8
Scoop cocoa/coffee mixture into the ⅓ filled bowl and mix thoroughly.
- 9
Line an 7.5 inch square pan with baking paper and pour ½ of the plain batter.
- 10
Spoon about ½ cocoa/coffee mixture and pour over the plain batter in random circular streaks.
- 11
Pour in the remaining plain batter and spoon in the cocoa/coffee mixture.
- 12
Bake in a preheated oven at 170C for 40 mins. Lower temp to 150 C for the last 20 mins. Watch cake closely for the last 20 mins to prevent over baking.
- 13
As each oven is different, please adjust baking temperature and timing accordingly.
- 14
Cover the cake with baking paper if the top is too dark.
- 15
Cake is done when a skewer inserted near the centre comes out clean
- 16
Let the pan cool down slightly before unmolding.