A Marble-ous day ;)

Well, the dog days of summer are coming to an end and it is raining cats and dogs here in ATL. Of course, fall season means college football and the peak of professional baseball season. Things that I like N absolutely detests :) Yes, I am a sports aficionado. I even saw gymnastics with great enthusiasm during the Olympics. And have I mentioned this?

I went to University of Michigan and I've taken a dip in the pool where someone called Michael Phelps has trained :D

Isn't that sweet!

Well I guess that’s the closest I'm getting to Phelps both in terms of distance as well as swimming capabilities ;) And I'm sorry about the rather shameless advertising...... The beginning of Fall term has so many vivid memories in my mind. More on those memories in another post. Coming back, it was one of those rainy August days when N and I were locked inside the house due to a tornado warning in our county. We decided to (gee !what a shock :P) bake something rich, warm and just chatter about our college days. When it comes to those golden days of your life, you never run out of stories and every time you reminisce, it feels like it was yesterday when that incident happened! And then you realize that you are OLD!

N and I decided to bake this beautiful chocolate marble cake and remember those marble-ous college days ;)

Ingredients:

1 ½ cups all purpose flour

¾ cup molten semisweet chocolate

1 cup sugar

3 eggs

3 tbsp butter

A pinch of baking soda and baking powder

1. Melt the butter in a microwave to bring it to room temperature. In a mixer, beat the butter with sugar. Add ¼ cup sugar at a time.

2. Add the eggs one by one and beat them well. Transfer the beaten mixture into a bowl and fold in the flour to make a nice, smooth batter. You can add milk to adjust the consistency of the batter. The final batter should be thicker than honey.

3. Divide the batter into two equal portions. To one, add the molten chocolate and mix well. I melted the chocolate using the double boiler technique.

4. In a baking dish, add two scoops of each batter side by side and continue till the baking dish is covered. If more batter is left, you can add layers of batters on top. The idea is not to ‘mix’ the two batters. Take a knife and give a few swirls. This produces the ‘marble’ effect.

5. Bake it at 325F for 25-30 mins. or until a toothpick comes out clean when immersed. Let it cool down outside.

6. Enjoy the moist, chocolaty goodness of the marble bread!

The cake came out really well and we wished the never stopped and the cake never got over ;)