Marble cake
The classic Sunday cake: vanilla and chocolate sponge swirled together.
1 h 20 min
Ingredients
Cooking for
Recipe serves 12
- Butter (soft)250 g
- Sugar220 g
- Vanilla1 tsp
- Eggs5
- Flour375 g
- Baking powder3 tsp
- Saltto taste
- Milk150 ml
- Cocoa powder3 tbsp
- Icing sugar (optional)2 tbsp
Method
- 1
Heat the oven to 175 °C and butter and flour a bundt or loaf tin.
- 2
Beat the butter, sugar and vanilla until pale and fluffy, then beat in the eggs one at a time. Mix in the flour, baking powder and salt, alternating with 100 ml of the milk.
- 3
Spoon half of the batter into the tin. Stir the cocoa powder and the rest of the milk into the other half and spoon it on top, then drag a fork through in spirals to marble.
- 4
Bake for 55 to 60 minutes until a skewer comes out clean. Cool, then dust with icing sugar.
- 55 min