Ever since the coronavirus lockdown began, I've been feeling all different emotions sweeping through my mind and body.
My feelings quickly changed from fear, anxiety, to concerns, and I find myself becoming nostalgic these days.
So far this year wasn't the greatest and the kindness year to us all.
I'm heartbroken, mostly because none of my plans about my family has worked out.
I was planning to spend my dad's birthday together after seven years back in Hungary as well as I was overwhelmed about my brother's firstborn as I haven't managed to see her since she's born.
All these feelings hit me at once urged me to comfort myself with nostalgic baking.
Let me share one of my favourite memories when I was a child.
When I was about 5-6 years old every time after my dad picked me up from primary school, he took me straight to this cosy little patisserie near our home for a piece of cake.
We both tried our best to limit ourselves with sugar intake.
Anyways after we moved from that little city to an even smaller village luckily, there wasn't any patisserie to pop in.
Don't get me wrong in here I enjoyed my little secret getaway to the corner patisserie with my dad, but I wasn't in that age anymore that I could get away with a daily cake intake without any guilt and saying hi to love handles.
As I was getting older, I started to learn and appreciate my mum's recipes.
Whilst I have never been interested in cooking, I mastered more and more of her delicious dessert and cake recipes.
I relied on her for lots of help when things when wrong. I remember the day when I walked into the kitchen, asking her to teach me how to bake a cake. At that moment, nothing could have wiped her smile off her face.
The reason behind her excitement was that I wanted to spend time with her in the kitchen as when I was younger, I tended to spend more time in the garage with my dad.
Anyways, so my mum grabbed her recipe book and picked this easy bake chocolate and vanilla marble cake recipe.
This exact marble cake that I'm sharing with you all today.
This is one of my personal favourites not just because it combines the two classical flavours chocolate and vanilla, but it also because it carries memories. For me, it isn't just another cake recipe.
This recipe brings back strong, happy memories. Like the first day when I learnt to bake, and I was preparing this cake with mum, or when my dad felt blue.
I made this cake for him to cheer him up, or the first birthday cake I ever made for my friend using this cake as a base I didn't know any other recipes.
It also reminds me of the days when I was naughty, and I baked this marble cake to my parents as a surprise to make up for my bad behaviour.
Baking this cake certainly has lightened my mood; the retro flavour also reminded me of my childhood and brought all those lovely memories back to me.
Since I have moved away, I haven't made this cake, and I was so excited but also so nervous how it will turn out.
I can proudly say that I managed to bake it just like in the good old days.
During these challenging times, constant stress worries it's nice to switch off for a few hours to bake something special like this cake means to me.
Even though the time when I can finally see my parents and my family is relatively unknown, this nostalgic moment brought some unforgettable memories and smiles back on my face today.
Before I get too emotional over here, let me share you this easy marble cake recipe with you.
It's super moist, very easy to make, and if you start now, you'll have a great treat for your weekend.
Recipe:
3 eggs
120 gram butter
240 gram sugar ( I used brown sugar )
120 ml milk
240 gram plain flour
1 sachet of baking powder
5gram cocoa powder
Covering:
100 gram chocolate
Instructions:
1.Preheat oven to (160°C).
2. Separate the eggs into two bowls.
2. Add the butter and sugar into the egg yolks and mix it until it's smooth and fluffy.
3. Sift the flour and the baking powder into the above egg yolks mixture and stir it gently.
4.Now add the milk and using an electric whisk or a stand mixer mix it until it's nice and smooth.
5. Place this paste aside and now get the egg whites under the stand mixer to beat it until it's very
stiff.
You can test the mixture by lifting the beaters straight up from the egg whites.
Peaks should remain on top of the egg whites, and when the bowl is tilted, the mixture should not slide around.
Be careful do not overbeat or they will become dry, clump together and you can start all over again.
6. It's time to combine the two mixture together.
Gently fold the beaten egg whites into the cake paste once you are done separate the cake mixture into two bowls again.
7. It's entirely up to you if you wish to separate it as half or just separating a small portion of it.
I prefer the cake with only a tiny piece of chocolate swirl, so I added only a few spoons of mixture into a bowl and added the cocoa powder. Once I combined it well, I spooned large blobs of each cake mixture into the prepared tin, alternating the flavours to give a marble effect.
Bake for 50–60 minutes until the cake is springy to the touch and a wooden skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
Allow the cake to cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely before slicing.
To prepare the cake tin:
Rub a little butter around the inside of the tin to grease it.
Take a small handful or spoonful of flour and dust lightly around the inside of the greased tin.
Turn upside down over your kitchen work surface and knock gently to remove any excess flour.
I hope you will find just as joy baking this cake as I do.
Don't forget to share your bake goodie with me if you try this recipe out. Just tag me @delilapipoly over Instagram.
See you next time,
Major thanks for the article post. Much thanks again. Biddie Alric Betteann