Matcha ricotta marble loaf with dark chocolate glaze

Name: Matcha ricotta marble loaf with dark chocolate glaze
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: 175 g butter, softened, plus 1 tsp, and extra for greasing; 100 g pack Menier Swiss Dark Cooking Chocolate; 1 g sachets Clearspring Organic Japanese Matcha Shot; 175 g caster sugar; 3 eggs; 1 tsp baking powder; 175 g Waitrose Superfine Self Raising Flour; 250 g tub Galbani Ricotta Cremosa; 1 tsp icing sugar, sifted

A dark and bitter-sweet cake with unmistakably green matcha ripples hiding within. The ricotta adds a delicious density to the crumb.

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Vegetarian

Serves10
CourseCake
Prepare20 mins
Cook1 hr
Total time1 hr 20 mins
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175g butter, softened, plus 1 tsp, and extra for greasing
100g pack Menier Swiss Dark Cooking Chocolate
4 x 1g sachets Clearspring Organic Japanese Matcha Shot
175g caster sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp baking powder
175g Waitrose Superfine Self Raising Flour
250g tub Galbani Ricotta Cremosa
1 tsp icing sugar, sifted

Preheat the oven to 180ºC, gas mark 4. Grease and line a 900g loaf tin with baking parchment. Melt 50g chocolate (see tip). Dissolve 3 sachets matcha in 1 tbsp just-boiled water. Set aside.
In a mixing bowl, beat together 175g butter and sugar using an electric hand mixer until pale. Add the eggs, baking powder and half the self raising flour, then beat until creamy. Fold in the remaining self raising flour and ricotta until evenly combined.
Split the mix into two bowls. Fold the matcha into one and the melted chocolate into the other. Alternate adding large spoonfuls into the tin, then swirl with a skewer. Bake for 50-60 minutes, until risen and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
Cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then turn onto a rack in its paper. To decorate, melt 50g chocolate and 1 tsp butter with 1 tsp icing sugar, stirring until smooth. Drizzle over the cold cake. Dust with a little more matcha from a fourth sachet.

Cook’s tip

Break the chocolate into small pieces and put in a heatproof bowl. Either heat in the microwave in short blasts until smooth, stirring now and again, or set the bowl over a pan of barely simmering water and leave to melt. Don’t let the water touch the bowl.

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