Chocolate & vanilla marble loaf

My Mom owns an entire stack of recipe books with some truly great recipes buried within; I found one, it’s just glorious and really hits the spot for my ever increasing sweet tooth. This cake is perfect if you plan or even didn’t plan to have people over for tea and want something pretty to place on your table. Here’s how to make it:

Ingredients

225g Butter, softened

225g Caster sugar

275g Self raising flour

2 level tsp Baking powder

4 Large eggs

2 tbsp Milk

½ tsp Vanilla Extract

1 ½ level tbsp Cocoa powder

2 tbsp Hot water

Icing:

25g Butter

15g Cocoa powder, sifted

1-2 tbsp Milk

100g Icing Sugar, sifted

25g White chocolate, melted

Method

1.    Preheat the oven at 180. Lightly grease the tin and line with a wide strip of non- stick baking parchment to go up the wide sides and over the base of the tin.

2.    Measure the butter, sugar, flour, baking powder, eggs, milk and vanilla extract into a large bowl and beat with a hand –held electric mixer for about minutes, until well blended. Spoon half the mixture into a bowl and set aside.

3.    In a small bowl, mix the cocoa powder and hot water together until smooth. Allow to cool slightly, then add to one of the bowls of cake mixture, mixing well until evenly blended.

4.    Spoon the vanilla and chocolate cake mixtures randomly into the prepared tin until all the mixture is used up, gently level the surface. Bake for 50 minutes- 1 hour, until the cake is well risen, springy to the touch and beginning to shrink away from the sides of the tin. Allow to cool in the tin for a few minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack, peel the lining paper and leave to cool completely.

5.    To make the icing, melt the butter in a small pan, add the cocoa powder, stir to blend and cook gently for 1 minute. Stir in the milk and icing sugar, then remove from the heat and mix thoroughly, if necessary leave the icing on one side, stirring occasionally, to thicken. Spread the cold cake evenly with the icing, then drizzle the melted white chocolate over the top. Leave to set

Serves 10.

I really hope that you enjoy making this and more so, eating it! May this feature at many of your parties with many happy tummies

S

Xoxo