PEANUT BUTTER & CHOCOLATE MARBLE CAKE

This exceedingly delicious cake was given to me by Ramona, a lovely German lady, who is a friend of my cousin’s in Dusseldorf. It is in metric quantities and I have typed the approx imperial beside it, but for accuracy I used the metric version! I baked it in a Bundt tin [available in any kitchen shop], although it is fine in a ordinary 9” or 10” springform tin. Then finishing it off with a little extra melted Chilli chocolate! You can’t have enough of the stuff.

Butter your tin well, then preheat your fan oven to 170C

250 gr room temp butter - 8oz

200 gr peanut butter - 7oz

400 gr caster sugar - 14oz

Beat until light, creamy and soft. Add

5 large eggs, one by one, with a little of the flour, then add the remainder of the dry ingredients:

230 gr plain flour - just over 7oz

2 teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons milk, if needed

Divide the mixture into 2 bowls [don’t worry if it is not exact]

Into one half, mix in 100gr [4oz] melted dark chocolate - 70% cocoa solids

Into the other half add 50 gr [2oz] baking chocolate chips

Tip both mixtures into your Bundt tin, alternately, spoonful by spoonful, trying not to mix the halves. Then vaguely level and create a rough marble pattern with the handle of a spoon or something similar.

Bake for approx 60-70 mins, I turned it down to 160C after 50 mins. Carefully turn it out and cool on a rack. When cool drizzle over a little more melted chocolate. I used chilli choc!

Enjoy.