Cake with Cacao

Description

In Romanian: Chec cu cacao

Ingredients

• 7 oz / 200 g butter
• 10 oz / 300 g confectioner's sugar
• 14 oz / 400 g flour
• 5 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 tablespoon cacao
• butter and flour to grease and dust the pan

Directions

1. Cream the butter with the sugar and vanilla, add the yolks one by one.
2. Mix with flour and then with whipped egg whites.
3. Take 4 - 5 tablespoons of this mixture and put in a bowl where you mix this with 1 tablespoon cacao.
4. Place half of the plain (without cacao) mixture in the buttered and dusted bread pan, then pour the cacao mixture down the middle over the plain mixture (to obtain a brown strip in the middle, from one end to the other).
5. Then pour the remaining plain mixture. Bake, first at low temperature, then somewhat higher.
6. When done, remove onto a wooden cutting board and cover with a cloth.