03 May 2003
BIRTHDAY CAKE=
MARBLE CAKE
 
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As You can imagine, when invited to a birthday celebration, I often bring cakes along with me. But when You do this regularly, it is not always easy- every time You bring a cake, you set a certain standard, and of course you want to keep this standard..
I think a lot about the kind of cake I want to bring so that it really will bring joy (not like once, when I invited a friend of mine, who is allergic to nuts to an Engadin nut cake – how embarrassing..). What does the person like especially? Is any of the guests allergic to anything? Will there be ex-alcoholic (there was one once- it nearly broke my heart to bake my marble cake without rum)
But even if everything goes wrong, and one arrives with a strange looking but well tasting amorphous cake-mass – the gesture is always appreciated - so -
dare to bake!

250 g butter
200 g sugar
210 g flour
4 Eggs , seperated
1 package vanilla puddingpowder
½ package baking soda
3 tablespoon milk
5 tablespoon Rum
40 g cacao powder

For decorating:
250 g chocolate or some powder sugar.
Sweets and candles

This recipe is a variation of the traditional 1 pound butter/1 pound flour/1 pound sugar/10 eggs recipe, which is basically given from mother to daughter (or son) in most families- it would fill grandma’s cake pan to the top. However, the quantities above are sufficient for a 26 cm cake pan.

Preheat oven to 190°C. Grease and flour a cake pan.

Mix butter and sugar well.
Add the egg yolks. Mix flour, pudding powder and baking soda and sieve onto the dough, add rum and milk.
Beat egg whites until stiff and add to the dough.
Fill two thirds of the dough into the cake pan. In the other part add the cocoa powder and Rum and mix well. Add the dark dough to the pan and mix with a fork until a marble structure shows.
Put the tray into the oven bake for about 60 minutes. Check with a wooden stick if the cake is good, if not, bake for another 5 –10 minutes.

After baking is over allow the cake to cool for 15 minutes. Then overturn the cake pan.
Decorate the cake as You like.