Tuesday, May 3, 2011

TWD - Basic Marbled Loaf

We've just had a lovely long weekend here but I have to admit it has messed me up a bit. With 2 short weeks in a row I never seem to know what day it is anymore! Luckily I remembered it was Tuesday today and that means it's TWD time.

This week Carol from The Bake More chose Dorie's Basic Marbled Loaf Cake. Rather than use the playing around suggestions I decided to take a trip down memory lane and make a neapolitan cake. These were everywhere when I was a child and mimic the colours of neapolitan icecream which had chocolate, strawberry and vanilla flavours side by side. In my house the vanilla always got left till last!

I split my batter into 3 lots keeping one plain, adding melted chocolate to the second and healthy dose of pink food colouring to the third. I have to admit I was pretty pleased with the result as my cake was not only pretty but moist and yummy.

We've had a fair bit of cake around here recently because of Oscar's birthday and he's taken to asking for 'more birthday' (meaing cake). Very cute!

Thanks to Carol for a great pick! You can find the recipe on her blog under today's date.

9 comments:

  1. What a beautiful cake! The chocolate always went first in the Neapolitan ice cream!

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  2. Neopolitan looks great! I was looking for birthday cake recipes the other day and my husband wanted me to make a neopolitan one, but I didn't have enough cake pans. This solves that!

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  3. Very pretty! And nice job on the marbling, too.

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  4. I love the Neopolitan idea - I know my kids would love that.

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  5. looks yummy and pretty!

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  6. Love your tri-color cake. Neapolitan brings back memories for me too. Remember those Neapolitan coconut bars? Yum. Thanks for baking with me this week. --- Carol

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  7. ooo perfect! What a fun idea!

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  8. What a great idea. Neapolitan Cake. Was The Hubs fav ice cream so I know he would love this.

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  9. The colors of this marble loaf are so fun and playful and I'm bookmarking this for future reference -- I love inspiration for baking for the recipe club I belong. This is just the recipe to kick me into baking gear.

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