Yin-yang marble cake

Today, we're just going to start out with the dinner And Gwans family. Gwan does not like me taking pictures.
This time we had Pasta Alfredo and not the Mushroom Risotto I had planned. Oh well...
Since it did not turn out quite well I will not post the recipe, but I just had to put up a picture of a family, enjoying a meal I cooked. Yay me!


But... The cake. This time we decided to try out some yin-yang cake since we had just bought some marzipan that could be used as a cover. The actual cake was a very delicious marble cake.
It was really great and spongy (which was very good, since it was a sponge cake after all)
We do not have many pictures of the making of the cake, but it looked like this when it came out of the oven

That is one hell of a cake right there!

The recipe for the cake: (24 persons)

• 600 g sugar
• 675 g butter
• 6 teaspoons vanilla sugar
• 9 eggs
• 750 g flour
• 4 tablespoons baking soda (the recipe said 6 and we did that, but afterwards we decided that 4 ought to be enough)
• 1 1/5 cups milk
• 6 tablespoons cocoa

Mix the sugar and butter in a bowl and add the vanilla sugar and eggs one at a time. Mix the flour and soda in another bowl and pour it into the dough along with the milk.
Then take out 1/3 of the dough and mix it with the cocoa.
Put half of the light dough in a form, then the dark and in the end the rest of the light. Mix it gently for that marble look.
Now, the recipe said to bake it at 175 degrees celsius for an hour, but we had to give it at least 30-45 minutes extra. That was the cake.

While it was in the oven we took half a kilo of marzipan and dyed half of it black.
We then rolled it out as thinly as possible and after the cake had cooled off, we cut it out in yin and yang shapes and put them on the cake. It was pretty awesome, look:

After that we cut out some pieces to put on the side of the cake to get it completely covered.
So our cake ended up looking like this:

Which is pretty damn cool if you ask me.

Of course we did a kiss-shot at the end. We always do that. (And thanks to Helene for bothering to take that picture)

Response of the yin-yang marble cake:
People really enjoyed it and gave a lot of complements, though a few were not so crazy about the marzipan - luckily they could just peel it off. We got a lot of questions on what 'the black stuff was' and people were quite impressed with what we had made. As one girl got to take an extra piece after everyone had gotten some it was suddenly very crowded in the kitchen as people were rushing to get one of the last pieces. So, it is easy to say that this cake was a complete succes.

On another account Gwan got her hands on some really interesting books that we are going to take a closer look at. There was a book entirely about cupcakes and it gave us a lot of inspiration. Another on was about decorating wedding cakes and I must say that we are going to try this as soon as we can. It simply looked so beautiful that it was impossible to resist. So (maybe) you will soon see a post of our first attempts in making wedding cakes! Yay us, we are like an old married couple! x'D See you until next time!