Blues Marble Cake with Blue Tea

Color your mood blue - add anchan, the despondency will go away! The spectacular blue color of the dough is achieved not through synthetic, artificial food dyes, but with the help of the flowers of the clitoria trifoliate plant, or Thai Anchan tea.
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Emily ClarkEmily Clark
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Blues Marble Cake with Blue Tea
Calories
312Kcal
Protein
6gram
Fat
15gram
Carbs
33gram
*Nutritional value of 1 serving

Ingredients

ServingsServings: 16

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking timeCooking time: 2 hr
  1. STEP 1

    STEP 1

    Mix the dry ingredients from the first group for the light dough: flour, starch, baking powder, almond flour.

  2. STEP 2

    STEP 2

    Grind clitoria flowers (blue tea) with sugar into powder in a coffee grinder.

  3. STEP 3

    STEP 3

    Beat softened butter with powdered sugar, add one egg at a time to the butter mixture.

  4. STEP 4

    STEP 4

    Add flour mixture and cream alternately to the buttercream. Divide the dough into two parts. Place approximately 2/3 of the batter into the babka pan (or other cake pan).

  5. STEP 5

    STEP 5

    Add crushed clitoria and cream to a smaller part of the dough; if desired, you can enhance the color with tincture of clitoria flowers.

  6. STEP 6

    STEP 6

    Place the dark dough on top of the light dough and mix lightly.

  7. STEP 7

    STEP 7

    Bake in a preheated oven for approx. 180 degrees before testing on a dry toothpick, approximately 45-60 minutes. Immediately remove the cake from the pan onto a wire rack and let cool before serving. If desired, you can cover it with glaze.

Comments on the recipe

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mom cooks
05.11.2023
4.5
Add bitter almond flavoring to the dark clitoris batter.