Reunion Loaf Cake ~Marbled Chocolate and Vanilla Loaf

This attractive reunion of the chocolate and the vanilla cake mixture tastes as impressive as it looks. Give this a try!

Ingredients:
Self Rising Flour - 2cups
Butter - 115gms or 1 stick, softened
Salt - just a pinch
Baking Powder - 1tsp
Caster Sugar - 1/2 cup
Eggs - 2, large ones
Plain Chocolate - 175gms
Coffee granules - 1/2tsp dissolved in 1 tsp of hot water
Cream - 1/2cup
Sour Cream - 3 1/2tbsp
Vanilla Bean Extract  or Bean Paste - 1tsp

In a large mixing bowl, sift the flour, baking powder, salt and set aside. In a separate bowl, beat the sugar and the butter together until light and creamy. Add in the eggs one by one and beat after each addition. Break the chocolate into small pieces into a bowl and melt over a pot of simmering water or in the microwave. Mix in the coffee and about 60ml of the cream and set aside. In a separate bowl mix in the sour cream and remaining cream. Alternating between the flour and cream mixture, fold into the creamed egg mixture until fully combined. Halve the mixture into two and into one mixture add the chocolate coffee mixture until evenly colored. Into the other half add the vanilla flavoring. Lightly grease and flour a 3pint french loaf tin. Layer the vanilla and chocolate cake mixtures in rounded tablespoonfuls alternating the colors into the tin keeping in mind you are trying to create a marbled effect. Bake in a preheated oven for about 50 minutes at 180C.Once baked, leave to cool slightly, before releasing the the cake from the sides of the tin. Lift the cake cake onto a wire rack to cool completely. Serve cold cut into slices.