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MARBLEIZED CAKE

      To marbleize simply put is to incorporate different colours that intertwine into each other (This is my own definition. LOL). Marbleizing a cake is so much fun and you can play with colours ranging from one or more colours.  Today I am going to show a tutorial on how to marbleize your cake. Here I marbleized pink colour and dark brown with my cake batter.



 Things you'll need

  • Cake batter ( it depends on the size of cake you want)
  • Food Colouring (colours of your choice, I used Pink, Dutch processed cocoa(to achieve the brown part)
  • Bowls and Spoons(I used 3bowls and spoons as I wanted to achieve three colours)
  • Spatula (with a big enough handle to swirl the cake batter)
  • Cake pan (depending on the size and shape you want)
  • Oven or if you don't have one ( see my how to bake without an oven)  

Procedure:  

  Prepare your cake pan by greasing it with butter and lining the inside with baking paper or cutting out A4 paper and set aside. Preheat the oven to 180 degree Celsius. Share the cake batter into the bowls in proportions as you want your marbleized cake to turn out ( I had more of the ordinary batter, almost an equal amount for the chocolate batter and little for the pink batter ) .
 Add the pink and Dutch- processed cocoa into the separate bowls and mix thoroughly with different spoons. Leaving one of the bowls containing cake batter untouched.
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Put the a spoonful of batter into the cake pan alternating each colour. If you are using a round pan. Go all round and fill the bottom of the pan. Then alternate each colour again on top of the previous layer.
 

When this is done, use the handle part of the spatula to draw big swirl patterns. Make sure to make big swirls and don't make too much swirls, four or five swirls is enough. 

Bake the cake in the oven for 45minutes and check doneness. If undone,bake for another 15minutes then set it on a cooling rack to cool. And Viola! you have your marbleized cake. Its quite easy!


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