Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Basic Marbled Loaf Cake

This week the Tuesdays with Dorie bakers are baking a wonderful Basic Marbled Loaf Cake.  It highlights a fantastic feature of Baking from my Home to Yours, called Playing Around.  In addition to the basic recipe, Dorie Greenspan often includes ideas for varying the recipe.  Check out the Tuesdays with Dorie blog to see many wonderful variations.

About a year ago, I baked the variation that included white chocolate in the white marble part of the cake.  I remember buying a good, expensive white bar chocolate and I remember paying for it.  But when I unpacked the groceries at home, my white chocolate wasn't there.  What a disappointment!   At any rate, I didn't have time to go back to the store so I melted some Ghirardelli white chocolate chips that I had on hand.  They glumped up when they cooled and ended up being rather chunky in the batter.  The cake was delicious nonetheless, but the white chocolate flavor didn't permeate the white batter.

This time I sent my sweet husband to the store and he came back with two bars of lovely white chocolate.  It melted perfectly and very easily mixed into the batter.  And I added peppermint extract to the white chocolate batter--Dorie did say that this was her favorite variation.

The result was wonderful!  The cake is lovely, moist, and has that happy hint of mint.  The marbling was beautiful and changed with each slice.  I wish I had taken more pictures, but thought it a bit rude to jump up with the camera each time one of my guests cut a slice!



For the recipe, and to read about her own baking adventures, visit Carol of The Bake More.

9 comments:

  1. I made the white chocolate mint variation--delicious. Your cake has great marbling, mine was kind of chunky but excellent.

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  2. Your cake looks fantastic...glad you had all the ingredients this time! That's always irritating, when you get home from the market and something critical is missing.

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  3. I have scorched white chocolate more times than I would care to admit. I think it is one of the hardest ingredients to work with. I think the chips do have something extra added that mess up the melting process. Yours looks great and I also made the peppermint variation.

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  4. Hey now--I think having your plate relentlessly paparazzied is the wages of being a dinner guest. Make 'em earn that cake! :-)

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  5. Your marbling is fantastic, so sharp and distinct. I’m sure your guest love it. Thanks for baking with me this week. --- Carol

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  6. White chocolate can be such a drama queen. :D
    Your loaf is gorgeous! I love the pretty marble pattern.

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  7. So glad that you got to make this again with good chocolate. Your cake looks wonderful with those lovely swirls.

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  8. Yum Peggy! Your marbling looks great!

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  9. White chocolate and mint. Perfect.

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