Chocolate Swirl Cake

Forgotten Recipes

Its been a long break from blogging, as i was at my mom's place for a whole week (long but lovely), only to find that my nets not working for two whole days after i come home.

Anyways being at my mom's place i made this batch of chocolate swirl cake which turned out really great.

its a recipe that I've had since ages, i mean really ages ( like since i was in school), but haven't actually made that often.i don't know why though..as it turned out absolutely scrumptious.

This was initially a chocolate chunk cake recipe, but I adapted it to make a chocolate swirl cake.

its a very simple white cake recipe that i think can actually be adapted for making a lot of variations. (can think of quite a few at the top of my mind )

Ingredients:

175 g butter, at room temperature

350 g flour (2 ¼ cups)

2 tsp baking powder

½ tsp baking soda

175 g powdered sugar

2 large eggs

150 ml milk, warmed

1 tsp vanilla essence

100g of dark or milk chocolate

50 ml fresh cream

1 – 1 ½ tbsp of powdered hazelnuts or almonds (optional)

Method:

Preheat oven to 180°C.

Rub the butter into the flour until the mixture resembles fine bread crumbs, stir in the sugar, eggs, milk and vanilla.

Mix until well combined.

In a separate bowl prepare a ganache from the milk, cream and almond or hazelnut powder.(can use nutella or any fruit jam or fruit puree instead)

Pour ⅓ of the batter in your prepared baking pan. Spoon ¾ th of the ganache on the batter, in 3 -4 separate blobs.

Pour the remaining batter and ganache in the pan. Insert a wooden skewer or knife and swirl the batter and ganache in the pan.

Bake for 35 -40 mins or until a wooden skewer inserted in the center comes out clean.