as promised, i'm posting the photos and recipes of my last two projects. here are the marble pound cakes i attempted. as you can see, one got a lot more chocolate batter than the other two cakes. i'll have to work on that next time!
makes 6 large cakes
cake flour - 3 lb 4.5 oz/1.49kg
baking powder - 1.5 oz/43g
butter, soft - 2lb 5.5oz/1.06kg
sugar - 2lb 5.5oz/1.06kg
salt - .5oz/14g
eggs - 3lb 12oz/1.70kg
- coat the loaf pans with a light film of fat or use the appropriate pan liners
- sift together the flour and baking powder
- cream together the butter, sugar and salt on medium speed with the paddle attachment, scraping down the bowl as needed, until the mixture is smooth and light in color, about 5 minutes
- blend the eggs and add in three additions
- add the sifted dry ingredients, mixing on low speed until just blended and scraping down the bowl as needed
- scale 2lb/907g batter into each prepared loaf pan
- bake at 350F/177C until a skewer insterted near the center of a cake comes out clean, about 50 minutes
- cool the cakes in the pans for a few minutes, then transfer to racks to cool completely.
marble variation: add 12oz/340g melted and cooled bittersweet choloate. after blending the batter, transfer one-third of the batter to a separate bowl and add the melted chocolate, folding it in thoroughly using a rubber spatula. gently pour the chololate batter into the plain batter. using the handle of a wooden spoon, gently swirl the batters together with 3 to 4 strokes. do not overblend. scale and bake as directed above.
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