Choco Scotch Marble Cake Food

CHOCOLATE MARBLE CAKE

Steps:

• Have all ingredients at room temperature Preheat oven to 350 degrees with rack in the lower third of the oven. Spray 8-10 cup tube pan with cooking spray.
• Use a whisk to combine four, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Sift together. Set aside. In a small bowl combine the espresso powder, cocoa and 1/3 cup of the sugar with 1/4 cup of water. Whisk until smooth. Set aside. In another small bowl, whisk whole egg with egg white. Set aside.
• Cut the butter into pieces and place in an electric mixing bowl. Beat for 1 minute to soften. Gradually add remaining 1 cup of sugar and beat at high speed for about 3 minutes. Dribble eggs in slowly, about 1 T at a time, beating constantly for about 2 minutes. On low speed, beat in a third of the flour mixture. On medium-high speed, beat in half of the yogurt. On low speed, beat in half of the remaining flour. On high speed, beat in the rest of the yogurt and the vanilla. On low speed, beat in the remaining flour.
• Measure out 1 1/2 cups of yogurt batter and mix into the cocoa mixture. Set aside.
• Use a large spoon to fill the bottom of the pan with about three quarters of the white batter placed in dollops. Cover the white batter with dollops of chocolate batter. Top the chocolate batter with small dollops of white batter spaced so that the chocolate batter shows through. Use a table knife to marble the batters together with a circular or zigzag motion; be careful not to blend them too much. Bake for 45-50 minutes or until the cake starts to pull away from the sides of the pan and a toothpick inserted in comes out clean.
• Cool for 10-15 minutes on a rack. Unmold the cake. Cool completely before serving or storing.

CHOCOLATE MARBLE CAKE

Steps:

• Chocolate mixture: Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• In a separate bowl mix the flour and the cocoa powder.
• Add a few spoons of the flour mixture; mix and then beat in an egg do this continuously until the eggs and flour mixture have finished.
• If the mixture is too dry add the milk.
• White mixture: cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy add some flour then beat in an egg. Do this until the eggs and flour have finished.
• Butter and flour a baking tray 24cm by 24cm.
• Put blobs of the chocolate mixture into the tray and then do the same with the white mixture.
• Get a butter knife and slowly mix the mixture in the tray (not so it goes light brown) so it forms a spiral of white and brown.
• Put it in the oven for about half an hour on gas mark 6.
• When the cake is nearly cooked get some plain chocolate and melt over a pan of boiling water.
• Get out the cake.
• When it is cooled down, spread the melted chocolate over the top of the cake then sprinkle with coconut powder.

MARVELOUS MARBLE CAKE

Steps:

• In top of a double boiler or a metal bowl over barely simmering water, melt chocolate and 3 tablespoons butter; stir until smooth. Cool to room temperature., Preheat oven to 375°. Line bottoms of three greased 8-in. round baking pans with parchment; grease parchment., In a large bowl, cream remaining butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add 1 egg at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Whisk flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream, beating well after each addition., Remove 2 cups batter to a small bowl; stir in cooled chocolate mixture and, if desired, chocolate chips, until blended. Drop plain and chocolate batters by tablespoonfuls into prepared pans, dividing batters evenly among pans. To make batter level in pans, bang cake pans several times on counter., Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 20-25 minutes. Cool in pans 10 minutes before removing to wire racks; remove parchment. Cool completely., For frosting, in a large bowl, beat butter until smooth. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar, vanilla and enough milk to reach desired consistency., If cake layers have rounded tops, trim with a serrated knife to make level. In a microwave, melt chocolate chips; stir until smooth. Cool slightly., Place 1 cake layer on a serving plate; spread with 1/2 cup frosting. Repeat layers. Top with remaining cake layer. Frost top and sides of cake., Drop cooled chocolate by 1/2 teaspoonfuls over frosting. Using a large offset spatula, smear chocolate to create a marble design in frosting.

SCOTCH CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• For cake: Sift together the flour and sugar into a large bowl.
• Combine the butter, cocoa and water in a saucepan; bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve the cocoa and melt the butter.
• Add cocoa mixture to the flour mixture and mix well with a wooden spoon.
• In a bowl combine the buttermilk, cinnamon, baking soda, eggs and vanilla; mixing well.
• Add buttermilk mixture to the flour/cocoa mixture.
• Beat until well blended (batter will be thin).
• Pour into a greased and floured 13x9 baking pan and bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 30 minutes or until cake tests done with a toothpick inserted in the center (if done the toothpick will come out clean).
• Spread icing over hot cake in pan.
• For icing: Combine the butter, cocoa and milk in a saucepan and bring to a boil; stirring until butter is melted and cocoa is dissolved.
• Remove from heat and stir in vanilla and powdered sugar mixing well then add pecans and mix.

BUTTERSCOTCH CHOCOLATE MARBLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350D F.
• Grease Bundt pan well and lightly flour it.
• In large mixing bowl combine cake mix, pudding mix, milk, water, oil and eggs.
• Beat at medium to high speed for about 3 minutes until mixture is smooth.
• Pour two-thirds of batter into prepared pan.
• Mix remaining batter with chocolate syrup and pour evenly over butterscotch mixture.
• Swirl through batter very gently with thin knife to marble.
• Bake for 50-60 minutes or until cake tests done Cool in pan 25 minutes, then turn out and finish cooling on wire rack.
• Chocolate glaze gives a crowning touch, or sprinkle with icing sugar.