Marble cake
Marble Cake just like nana used to make. With a delicate mix of chocolate, vanilla and strawberry it's a taste sensation. This recipe is nice and easy with a golden crispy edge so good with or without icing.
Ingredients
- 250 g butter softened
- 1¼ cups caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 3 eggs
- 2¼ cups self-raising flour sifted
- ¾ cup milk
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 3 drops red food colouring
Vanilla butter icing
- 50 g butter softened
- 1 cup icing sugar sifted
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 2 tbsp boiling water
Instructions
- Heat oven to 160°C fan bake. Grease a 22cm springform cake tin and line the base with nonstick baking paper. Place butter and sugar in a bowl and beat until pale and creamy.
- Beat in vanilla essence and eggs, one at a time. Stir in sifted flour in two batches, alternating with the milk. Divide the mixture between three separate bowls. Beat cocoa powder into one portion, stir red food colouring into one portion and leave one portion plain.
- Drop large spoonfuls of the different mixtures into the prepared cake tin, alternating the colours. Drag and swirl a blunt knife through the mixtures to create a marble pattern.
- Bake for 1 hour or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Cool in tin, then remove and spread with vanilla butter icing.
- To make vanilla butter icing, beat all ingredients together in a bowl until pale and creamy. The cake is also superb without icing if saving on calories. The outer edges of the cake are golden and crisp.
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