Orange Marble Cake

It was Friday and I am having one of my cravings again. I want so much to eat some marble cake, and no, a slice from the cake shop just will not do.

I have so many cravings with this pregnancy and because of that, I've been whipping up lots of stuff in my kitchen. Last Friday I made some orange marble cake with cocoa and fresh orange juice and rind.

The orange juice and rind gave the cake such an intense flavour. I'm never one who likes to flavour my cakes with artificial flavourings. The smells emanating from the oven is heavenly and sometimes I wonder what my neighbours must go through every time I bake a cake! Free smells abound in my neighbourhood and when there's extra the neighbours get to share some too. It will be Christmas soon and no doubt my neighbourhood will be filled with free smells yet again!

My favourite sugee cake

My all-time favourite cake is the sugee cake. I can hardly find it in bakeries these days, even when I do, it’s just not up to the standard. So begins my quest for the home-made sugee cake. Since I can’t buy it, I’ll just have to make my own. I’ve tried lots of recipes and spent lots of money baking sugee cakes that turned out missing that little something! It’s extremely frustruating! That is, until I baked these :

They turned out perfect!!!!! The texture of the cake is exactly how I liked it. Moist with enough bite, compliments of the sugee (semolina flour).

It’s made from a heart-attack inducing 18 eggs and 3 bars of butter though. Not exactly a cake for the healthy masses, but I guess it’s ok to satisfy my craving once in a very long while!