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Mango and vanilla marble cake

Buttery and tender mango and vanilla marble cake

Ingredients
  

  • 170 grams or ¾ cup unsalted butter at room temperature
  • 200 grams or 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 3 eggs at room temperature
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence or extract
  • 310 grams or 2 ½ cups cake flour or all purpose flour look at the step-by- step for details
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ½ cup mango puree from 1 mango

Instructions
 

  • Grease your loaf pan with butter and dust liberally with flour. Or you could line with parchment. Preheat oven to 160 C/ 325 F.
  • Sift or whisk together the flour , baking powder and salt. To make cake flour : measure out 2 ½ cups all purpose flour into your mixing bowl, remove 5 tablespoons of the flour out and replace with 5 tablespoons of corn flour. Whisk this with the baking powder and salt. Keep aside.
  • Beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy .
  • Add the eggs , ONE at a time , and beat each well until incorporated.
  • Add the vanilla and beat well .
  • Add in the dry ingredients mixture and beat at low speed for a minute or so until incorporated.
  • Divide the batter into two bowls. It doesn’t need to be exact as you will be swirling them anyways.
  • To one bowl, add the mango puree and beat until incorporated smoothly.I
  • In the pan, alternately drop big blobs of the vanilla and mango batter like. Then over the vanilla, drop mango blobs and over the mango , drop vanilla batter. Do this until you use up both batters.
  • Swirl ( s – shapes) both the batters using a skewer or knife.
  • Bake in the preheated overn at 160 C/ 325 F for 45- 50 inutes until a toothpick into the centre comes out dry.
  • Cool in the pan for 15 minutes and then remove from pan , and cool completely on a wire rack.

Notes

For a whole mango cake , use 1 cup mango puree from 2 -3 mangoes.
To puree the mangoes, simply chop and blend in your mixer or food processor . Use the ripest and brightest coloured mango flesh that you can find .
If your mangoes aren't that ripe / bright yellow, you can add couple of drops yellow food colouring. The final colour will be lighter than your batter.
If you like your cakes sweet , add upto 1/4 cup sugar more into the recipe.
My measuring cup measures 240 ml