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marble cake recipe

Marble Cake Recipe

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A simple butter cake with vanilla and chocolate batter swirled together to create a marbled look. A favourite for kids, this cake needs no frosting, just good quality butter to make it taste amazing!
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Course Cake
Servings 12

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups plain flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • A pinch of salt omit if using salted butter
  • 1 1/4 cup powdered sugar
  • 100 gm unsalted butter softened to room temperature
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 cup milk
  • 2 tbsp cocoa powder

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 180C / 350F
  • Grease a cake tin of choice with some butter. I used my silicone bundt pan which needs no greasing.
  • Place the flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla essence and milk in a bowl.
  • Beat slowly with a whisk to moisten, then beat with an electric mixer (or vigorously by hand) at medium speed for about two minutes until the batter is smooth.
  • Reserve three-fourth cup batter and pour the remainder into the cake pan.
  • Stir cocoa into the three-fourth cup reserved batter. You can add cocoa to more of the batter depending on which flavour you want dominating.
  • Drop the chocolate batter by the spoonfuls on top of the white batter.
  • Using a knife, swirl the cocoa batter into the white batter to give it a marbled effect.
  • Bake for 35-40 minutes in the preheated oven. Check with a skewer to see if the cake is done.
  • Remove and transfer to a wire rack to cool.
  • Marble cake is delicious without any frosting but a light dusting of icing sugar won’t hurt.

Notes

I have tried this marble cake recipe with salted butter and unsalted butter. Both taste fine (add a fat pinch of salt if using unsalted butter) and I would recommend using the best quality butter you can get your hands on
The batter is meant to be a bit thick and this is perfect. 
When swirling the cake batter, don't over do it or the batters will mix together and turn beige
The crust needs to turn a golden brown so bake as long as a skewer inserted into the cake comes out with moist crumbs
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