Marble Cake: Your Perfect Tea Time Snack!

Simple marble cake made using cocoa powder and vanilla essence, serves good as a tea time snack and also as a dessert. Make it at home today!

Ingredients

225g Butter, softened
225g Caster sugar
4 Eggs
225g Maida/Flour
Baking powder- 1 Tsp
Baking soda - 1 tsp
Milk- 3 tbsp
Vanilla extract- 1 tsp
Cocoa powder- 2 tbsp

Method

1- Heat oven to 180C.

2- Grease a 20 cm cake tin and line the bottom with a circle of greaseproof paper.

If you want to make life easy, simply put all the ingredients (except the cocoa powder) into a food processor and whizz for 1-2 mins until smooth. If you prefer to mix by hand,beat the butter and sugar together, then add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Fold through the flour, milk and vanilla extract until the mixture is smooth.

3- Divide the mixture in 2 bowls.
Stir the cocoa powder into the mixture in one of the bowls.

4- Take 2 spoons and use them to dollop the chocolate and vanilla cake mixes into the tin alternately.

5- When all the mixture has been used, tap the bottom on your work surface to ensure that there aren’t any air bubbles.

6- Take a skewer and swirl it around the mixture in the tin, a few times to create a marbled effect.

7- Bake the cake for 45-55 mins, until the skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.

8- Turn out onto a cooling rack and leave to cool.

The delicious marble cake is ready! You can keep it for 3 days in an airtight container.

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