Marble Cake

Serves: 8
Yield: 1 30- x 11-cm cake
Ready in: 1 hour 20 mins (20 mins prep - 1 hour cook)
Ingredients for marble cake

250 g butter
230 g caster sugar
Few drops of vanilla essence
4 eggs
500 g plain flour
1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder
150 ml milk
3 tablespoons cocoa powder
Marble Cake

Preparation method for marble cake

1. Use a 30- × 11-cm loaf tin.
2. Lightly grease and flour tin, tapping out any excess. Preheat oven to 180°C.
3. Place butter in a large mixing bowl; beat until creamy. Add caster sugar (reserve 1 tbsp) and essence and beat until well combined.
4. Add eggs one at a time, beating until well combined. Sift flour and baking powder onto a plate. Reserve 2 tbsp milk and stir the rest into the batter. Spoon two-thirds of the batter into the prepared tin.
5. Stir sifted cocoa powder, 1 tbsp sugar and the last of the milk into the remaining cake batter and spread over the batter in the tin.
6. Twist a fork through the layers of batter to produce a marbled effect. Smooth the top and bake for 30-35 minutes at 250C or until a toothpick comes out clean.
7. Turn cake out onto a wire rack to cool.