I must first apologise for not posting anything the last couple of days but it's just been so busy. In fact, tomorrow is going to be even busier as I'm going into London. But don't get me wrong... I absolutely love London so it'll be great fun.
Anyway, earlier this evening (due to my very busy few days) I was consequently trying to relax and as so often found myself in the kitchen. I decided on baking a marble cake and god is it delicious so I thought I would share the recipe with you.
For my oh-so-yummy half-chocolate half-vanilla cake you will need:
A bundt cake form (with a diameter of about 22cm)
250g soft butter
250g sugar
1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
1 pinch of salt
4 eggs
300g self-raising flour
5 tablespoons of milk
30g cocoa powder
(and a bar of chocolate for the top)
Start by greasing the form with butter and preheat the oven at 180 degrees.
Put the butter in a mixer and mix until soft and creamy. Then take 3 tablespoonfulls from the sugar and place aside in a bowl (you will need this for the chocolatey half later). Pour the sugar, vanilla extract, salt and eggs in with the butter and mix.
Add the flour and 3 spoonfuls of milk, alternating between the two (aka 100g flour, 1 spoonful milk, 100g flour another spoonful milk etc).
Put 2/3rds of the mixture into the form. Then pour the cocoa powder, the rest of the sugar and the other 2 spoonfuls of milk in with the remaining mixture.
Add the chocolate half on top of the vanilla half in the form and using a fork create a marble pattern:
Place the cake on the lower shelf in the oven and bake for about 1 hour.
When it's done (check by piercing the cake with a fork - if it's still droopy/wet then leave for another 20 minutes), leave to stand for a few minutes while you melt the chocolate bar. Do this either in the microwave or by putting the chocolate into bowl over boiling water. Decorate the cake with chocolate and serve. Enjoy!
S.
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