Classic Marble Cake

Ingredients

• butter (for the loaf pan)
• Flour (for the loaf pan)
• 250 g room‑temperature butter
• 175 g sugar
• 1 pinch salt
• 5 eggs
• 500 g flour
• 2 tsp Baking powder
• 225 ml milk
• 3 tbsp dark cocoa powder
• 150 g bittersweet couverture chocolate
• 1 tbsp Coconut oil
• 100 ml heavy cream (at least 30% fat)
• 14 chocolate chips

Instructions

1. 1.

   Preheat the oven to 180°C fan. Grease a loaf pan with butter and dust with flour. Beat the butter with sugar and salt until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, stirring until pale and creamy. Mix flour and baking powder together, then add to batter with milk and stir. If dough is too stiff, add a little more milk. Pour 1/3 of the batter into the pan. Mix remaining batter with cocoa and 2–3 tbsp milk. Spoon dark batter over light batter in pan, then top with remaining light batter. Bake in preheated oven for 50–60 minutes (test with skewer). Remove, cool briefly, then unmold onto a cooling rack.

2. 2.

   Melt couverture chocolate with coconut oil over a double boiler. Pour over cake and let set. Whip cream to stiff peaks, fill a piping bag with star tip, and pipe small dots on cake. Garnish each slice with two chocolate chips and serve.