For your sweet Valentine's No.2: Neapolitan Loaf

 Sweetness is what I want ^^, and I think that everyone need it too. So, I won't hold back.

I think that for Valentine's day, some of you may need some recipe that easy to transport, so loaf cake is the best answer. Plus you can cut and pack it into a small plastic bag too, if you want to give it to many people.

This cake is very cute, you can see 3 colors, pink, brown and white. Each one has different taste. The white part is Vanilla, that has creamy taste from mascarpone cheese and lovely vanilla aroma. The pink one is strawberry, made by folding strawberry jam into the batter, it has both sweetness and lovely color. The last one is brown, I think you know what the taste is, yes, it's chocolate, that made by adding cocoa powder into the batter. 

This cake is very easy to make. You can see from the method that we beat the flour into the butter before adding the egg. With this method, the flour will be covered with the fat before contacting the water from the egg, that means the gluten won't occur easily and you will get soft and fine texture cake.

If you're afraid that the cake will be too sweet from the jam, I suggest making the jam by yourself by following this recipe (^^, don't frown at me this recipe is very easy, you can make jam using the microwave in less than 15 minutes).

Hope you enjoy this sweet cake (I mean that look, the taste is delicious not too sweet, haha), and have lovely and happy Valentine's day.

 Neapolitan Loaf

Make 25x10cm loaf

190g .................................. Unsalted butter, soft
185g ................................... Granulated sugar
180g ................................... Cake flour
5g ....................................... Baking powder
............................................ Pinch of salt
4 ......................................... Eggs

Chocolate batter
10ml ................................... Milk
15g ..................................... Cocoa powder

Strawberry batter
50g ..................................... Strawberry jam
............................................ Pink food coloring

Vanilla batter
50g ..................................... Mascarpone cheese
1tsp .................................... Vanilla extract

 

  Preheat the oven to 180C
Line 25x10cm loaf pan with baking paper.

 Beat the butter and granulated sugar until combine.

Pour the cake flour, baking powder and pinch of salt into the bowl, and beat to combine.

 Beat the eggs together, and pour into the bowl.

 Beat until smooth.
Weigh the batter into 2 bowl, 195g each. 

 Mix milk and cocoa powder into 1 bowl to make chocolate batter.

 Mix the strawberry jam and pink food coloring into another bowl to make strawberry batter.

 Mix the mascarpone cheese and vanilla into the rest of the batter to make vanilla batter.

 Mix to combine.

Put each batter into piping bags.

Pipe 1 layer of vanilla batter, pipe the chocolate batter on top, follow by the strawberry batter.

 Cover the top with the rest of vanilla batter.
Smooth the top and bake for 55-60 minutes, or until a toothpick insert into the center come out clean.

Let the cake cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then remove from the pan and let it cool completely.

For your sweet Valentine's No.2: Neapolitan Loaf