Vanilla And Chocolate Loaf Cake

• 1/2 cup butter at room temperature
• 5/8 cup sugar
• 2 eggs weighing 120 gr.
• 1 cup flour
• 7 7/16 tablespoons cocoa
• salt
• grated lemon peel
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• sliced almonds

1. Preheat the oven to 170C.
2. Add the sugar to the butter with a pinch of salt, and beat with an electric mixer until light and foamy.
3. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
4. Add a pinch of salt, the grated lemon peel, and the vanilla extract to the flour.
5. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, use the hook attachment or a wooden spoon.
6. Divide the batter into two parts, one weighing 250 grams and the other weighing 230 grams.
7. Add the sifted cocoa to the dough weighing 230 grams.
8. Butter a loaf pan well with some softened butter, line the pan with almond slices.
9. Place a strip of wax paper down the center of the pan and add half of the vanilla batter on one side of the paper and half of the cocoa on the other side.
10. Next add the other half of the vanilla batter on the cocoa batter and the remaining cocoa batter on top of the vanilla batter. Carefully remove the wax paper.
11. Bake for approximately 1 hour.
12. Remove the cake from the oven and cool on a wire rack.

butter, sugar, eggs, flour, cocoa, salt, lemon peel, vanilla, almonds

Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Vanilla-and-Chocolate-Loaf-Cake-531810 (may not work)