06 March 2011

Marble Pound Cake: 2nd attempt


This is my second attempts on marble cake. I'm using Carol's marble pound cake recipe, this time not dare to make any modifications, no banana, please!
Lesson learnt:
1. Butter should not be too soft.
2. No need to beat the butter until too smooth in the begining stage. 
3. oil dashing out is common situation in pound cake.


My heart sank when I saw the oil accumulate in the baking pan, I thought, oh no, again! But when I cut the cake, surprise, the texture of the cake looks nice and soft, no oily bottom like in my previous baked


Soft texture! :D

19 comments:

  1. Well done Tze! This is perfect!

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  2. YEAH! congrats! you succeed! (: (: it look really lovely (:

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  3. Ah-Tze, your second pic with the oil accumulate in the baking pan, I see this for the first time.

    Anyw, congrats on your success!!! :)

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  4. Congrats Ah-Tze! Pretty cake :)

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  5. Wow! Looks gorgeous, I'm just craving for a slice.

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  6. i'm surprised to see the oil boiling in the pan..and it turned out fine! Glad you made this time a success!!

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  7. yay!! good for you. i couldnt figure out what happened initially...congrats!

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  8. Hi,
    first time here…
    This really looks fantastic!

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  9. Hi, Glad to see that you've succeeded this time round. I've not seen oil coming out in the pan before, at least now I know that this is OK if it happens to mine. Sorry for not replying your earlier comment. About to when I saw your success here! Thank you for visiting my blog and for following too. I'm following you as well. Have a lovely week.

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  10. Thanks everyone for the lovely remarks!

    I made such a conclusion on point 3 "oil dashing out is common situation in pound cake" based on my 3 attempts, all of them having such a situation. I didn't encounter such thing in my other type of cakes. Really a strange situation, right?

    Dimah, you are most welcome!


    Kitchen flavours, thanks for dropping by, that's lot of thing which I need to learn :)

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  11. Thanks for your persistenc to find out the root cause and share us the tips on how to making a perfect pound cake.
    Ya, about the herbs making the Salmon otak-otak, actually these common herbs is easily to get it in supermarket e.g Jusco or Tesco. The otak-otak will not taste nice if without all these herbs.

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  12. Hi Sonia, thanks for dropping by! Haha...yes to persistence, as for perfect...not yet lah, the marble swirling still need improvement :D

    Oh..you meant using different herbs/leaves for otak is ok? Thanks for the information.

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  13. Well done, Ah Tze, finally got it right :)

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  14. Min, yes, finally after 3 times of trying :D

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  15. Beautiful! The oil would make me nervous, too, but good to know all turned out perfectly! I'd love a big slice~

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  16. Lizzy, yes, so strange to have so much oil dashing out from the pound cake isn't it?

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