Bookish Recipe: Sant Jordi Cake


Welcome to Bookish Recipes, a feature on the blog where I cook or bake a recipe from a book I have loved and share the result with you. Last Thursdays was Sant Jordi's Day, a very special day for me because we celebrate love and culture exchanging books and roses with your loved ones. This is why this week I have decided to share with you a traditional recipe with a small twist. 

Basically, I've taken my mum's recipe for this cake that we call coc, and make it a red marble cake to match the colour of the roses. It's quite an easy and quick recipe to make and it always comes up really well. Have a look:




For the Ingredients, you'll need:
- 4 eggs
- 1 yogurt (and keep the recipient to measure the other ingredients - I used a 125g yogurt)
- Oil (1 yogurt)
- Sugar (2 yogurts)
- Flour (3 yogurts)
- Baking powder (1 sachet)
- 4 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1/2 red colourant

1) Preheat oven to 200º. Mix all the ingredients (except the cocoa and red colourant) and divide the dough in two.
2) To one of the halves add the cocoa and the red colourant and mix well.
3) Fill a mould (20 cm) with half of the white dough, then add half of the red dough and mix them a bit to give it a marble effect. Repeat again.
4) Bake in the oven for 25/30 minutes (at 180º).
5) To decorate, I printed the silhouette of a rose and filled it with icing sugar.

The result is a very moist cake that you will devour in a couple of days. I really like this red marble effect and it was perfect to celebrate such a fantastic day as Sant Jordi. 




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  1. For the yogurt measurement, what size is needed?

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    1. Good questions, I forgot to add this! It's a 125g yogurt! :)

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  2. Sounds a little like St. Valentine's Day! The cake looks delicious!

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    1. Thank you Laurie! Yes, it's kind of our own version of St. Valentine's (which we don't really celebrate) but I love that books play such a huge role in Sant Jordi too! :)

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  3. I love how you did that stencil decoration. How beautiful.

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  4. I love learning new things, I didn't know about Sant Jordi Day. Thanks for the enlightenment.

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    1. haha you're welcome! I also love learning new things so I try to share all this! :)

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  5. Love the red swirls in the finished cake and the sugar stencil! How much baking powder is in one sachet?

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    1. Thank you Cecelia! Good question, there are about 2 tablespoons. :)

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  6. That rose stencil is so pretty. And the cake looks really good. We love red velvet cake!

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  7. Books and roses - what a lovely tradition. Cheers from Carole's chatter

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