Bread & dough · Original adaptation
Marbled Tomb Loaf Cake Recipe
A vanilla-and-cocoa marble loaf trimmed into a simple tombstone, coated with gray chocolate glaze, and set over an easy cookie-crumb graveyard.
Inspired by Halloween Baking Championship, Season 5, Episode 5
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Marbled Tomb Loaf Cake
- Prep
- 45 min
- Bake
- 55 min
- Total
- 1 hr 40 min
- Makes
- One loaf cake, serving 10
Ingredients
- 200 g unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for the pan
- 200 g caster sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 200 g plain flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon fine salt
- 60 ml whole milk
- 25 g unsweetened cocoa powder
- 150 g white chocolate, finely chopped
- 75 ml double cream
- Black gel food coloring
- 100 g chocolate sandwich cookies, finely crushed
Method
Heat the oven to 180 C, or 160 C fan. Grease a 900 g loaf pan and line it with baking paper, leaving an overhang on the long sides.
Beat the butter and sugar for 3 to 4 minutes until pale and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then mix in the vanilla.
Whisk the flour, baking powder, and salt together. Fold the dry ingredients into the butter mixture, followed by 45 ml of the milk.
Transfer half the batter to another bowl. Stir the cocoa and remaining milk into one half. Alternate spoonfuls of vanilla and chocolate batter in the pan, then draw a skewer through them twice to marble lightly.
Bake for 50 to 55 minutes, until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 15 minutes in the pan, then lift the loaf onto a rack and cool completely.
Stand the loaf on one short end and trim the opposite end into a rounded tombstone top. Lay it flat again while preparing the glaze.
Heat the cream until steaming and pour it over the white chocolate. Leave for 2 minutes, then stir smooth and tint gray with a tiny amount of black coloring. Cool until thick but pourable.
Set the cake upright on a serving board and coat it with the gray glaze. Once set, use a little reserved, darker glaze to pipe a short inscription. Scatter the cookie crumbs around the base as soil.
From the episode
Gravely Delicious Desserts
This adaptation starts from the episode's grave robbers and tombs brief and reshapes it for ordinary home equipment and a manageable batch.
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The sources below document the episode challenge. The quantities and method on this page are independently written by Baking Show Guide; they are not copied from a contestant or broadcaster recipe.
