Peanut Butter Chocolate Nutella Maple Syrup Marble Cake

Phew! That is a mouthful one huh? But its so good. I hardly ever bake a cake because Im afraid that they would not come out good. But when I looked at Dhanggit's cake, I knew that I had to give it a shot. It is pretty easy to make and gave me the excuse to buy some Nutella for myself. A girl has got to be smart. ;) I also learned a few things while making this.

1. Im not that bad at baking. :P

2. I learned that separating egg yolk from white egg is not that hard. Yes, that was the first time I did it.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Nutella Maple Syrup Marble Cake

3 eggs

4oz sugar

1 1/4cups flour

6oz butter (1.5 stick) - melted

3 tbsp maple syrup

3 tbsp peanut butter (next time i would use 5tbsp!)

2 tbsp Nutella

2oz dark chocolate

1tsp (heap) baking powder

Preheat oven at 325F

1. Start by separating the yolk and white of the 3 eggs.

2. Cream the yolk with sugar, melted butter and maple syrup until it becomes creamy. Add flour, baking powder and mix well.

3. Beat the egg white until they become stiff and add to the mixture. Continue mixing.

4. Divide the cake mixture into 2 portions.

5. Mix 1 portion with the melted chocolate and nutella spread and peanut butter in the other portion.

6. You can either pour the 2 flavors at the same time on a well greased baking dish of your choice or pour them alternately or any other way you want for the marble effect. I simply pour them line by line since im not too creative. hahaha.

7. Bake the cake for 30 min, take it out and cover the top with aluminium foil (Dhanggit said to avoid burning and that is exactly what I did) and continue baking for another 10min.

The result is a soft chocolaty, peanut buttery cake. The smell when the cake is baking is so intoxicating that I keep sniffing into the air just to get the smell. The cake was however a bit dry when it's new but gets moister the next day. Im no experct on cake but I guess it was because the butter has sets in nicely.