recipe request: mouthwatering marble cake

This is my first “recipe request” post.

The dish – marble cake.

The recipe card – below.

Serves: 8

Ingredients:

For an 8 inch round baking tray:

1 1/4 cup plain flour

1/2 cup milk

1/2 cup vegetable oil or butter (when solid)

2 tsps baking powder

1 tsp vanilla extract powder (+ any flavouring you like, eg. orange zest – optional)

2 eggs

3 tsp cocoa powder

Icing sugar and cocoa for dusting

For a 26 cm by 18 cm rectangular baking tray:

1  7/8 cup plain flour

3/4 cup milk

1/2 cup vegetable oil or butter (when solid)

3 tsps baking powder

2 tsps vanilla extract powder (+ any flavouring you like, eg. orange zest – optional)

2 eggs

3 tsps cocoa powder

Icing sugar and cocoa for dusting

Method:

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celsius.

Note, I used the spring form tray. Grease it.

Add the dry ingredients into a large bowl.

Add the wet ingredients gradually and mix until the batter is smooth.

Pour half the batter into another bowl and add the cocoa powder.

Mix the cocoa batter until smooth (and no lumps remain).

First, pour a little bit of the white batter. Then follow it with some of the chocolate one.

Continue to pour in all the white batter (without scraping the bowl).

Next add some more cocoa batter. Use a teaspoon to make swirls and abstract shapes.

Scrape the remaining white batter into the baking pan.

Now scrape the remaining cocoa batter…and you’re done!

Pop it into the oven for 35 minutes. Check on it at the 30 minute mark in case you’ve a quick oven To check if the cake is cooked, put a skewer or knife in the center, if it comes out clean, your cake is ready! Otherwise, pop it into the oven for another 5-10 minutes.

If it’s cooked, place your cake on a cooling rack to cool. It’s best not to remove it from the bottom of your spring form pan until it’s cool (i.e. just remove the sides from the spring form pan)…. And use the top of your stove like I did if your cooling rack isn’t handy.

When completely cool, dust with icing sugar. Then dust patches with cocoa to complete the marble effect!

Serve with a dollop of your favourite ice cream…

…Or your favourite decaf…

 …Either way…

Devour!

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