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cake marbré au chocolat gâteau le Fraternel créé pour le secours catholique

Chocolate and Vanilla Marble Cake (French gâteau marbré)

Course: Cake or tart
Cuisine: French
Occasion: Birthday, Breakfast, Picnic
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 50 minutes
Servings: 8
Gâteau marbré is a great classic of French home cooking. Both simple and decadent, the ideal cake to give to kids for afternoon snack. First combine all ingredients except chocolate as for a classic cake. Then add melted chocolate in 1/3rd of the dough and vanilla in the 2/3rd part. Finally fill the greased and floured mold alternating vanilla batter and chocolate batter.
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Ingredients

  • 5 eggs
  • 150 gr sugar
  • 180 gr butter
  • 265 gr flour
  • 1 pack baking powder
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract more or less according to your product
  • 120 gr dark chocolate

Optional topping

  • 2 handfuls hazelnuts
  • 2 tablespoons muscovado sugar if not brown sugar
  • 1 knob butter
  • icing sugar

Instructions

  • Preheat your oven to 170 °C.

Prepare the batter

  • In a bowl (or using your food processor), whisk the 5 eggs with sugar, until the preparation whitens and gets a smooth texture.
  • Melt butter and add it to the egg-sugar mixture, stir immediately.
  • Apart, combine the dry powders (flour, baking powder and salt). Add this to the previous preparation and gently combine.

Make the two flavors and assemble

  • Melt dark chocolate in the microwave or ideally in a bain-marie.
  • Separate the dough in 2/3rd and 1/3rd. Mix the chocolate with the smallest portion (thus of
  • 1/3rd) and add vanilla in the biggest portion (thus of 2/3rd).
  • Grease with butter or oil and flour a mold (here round mold of about twenty centimeters of diameter). Then add successively a little bit of vanilla preparation then a bit of the chocolate preparation. Tap the mold between each new filling so that the dough will spread a bit on the whole surface of the mold. Continue again and again alternatively with chocolate and vanilla dough.

Bake

  • Bake for 45 to 50 minutes, check if the cake is well cooked with the tip of a knife. When baked, flip it over a dish.

If you choose to add the optional hazelnut topping

  • In a pan, heat sugar with butter, add hazelnuts let caramelize over medium heat, stirring regularly for about ten minutes.
  • Neatly arrange those caramelized hazelnuts on the cake and sprinkle with icing sugar.