Marble Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 40 mins Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 250 g butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/4 cups caster sugar (275g)
• 3 eggs
• 2 1/4 cups self raising flour (335g)
• 3/4 cup milk (180ml)
• pink food coloring
• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 2 tablespoons milk, extra
• 90 g butter, softened
• 1 cup icing sugar (160g)
• 1 tablespoon milk

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 180dc/160dc fan forced. grease deep 22cm round or 19cm square cake pan. line base with baking paper.
• 2 beat butter, extract and sugar in medium bowl with electric mixer until light and fluffy. beat in eggs, one at a time. stir in sifted flour and milk, in two batches.
• 3 divide mixture among three bowls; ting one mixture pink. blend sifted cocoa with extra milk in a cup; stir into second mixture; leave remaining mixture plain. drop alternative spoonfuls of mixture into pan. pull a skewer backwards and forwards through cake mixture.
• 4 bake cake about 1 hour. stand cake in pan 5 minutes before turning, topside up, onto wire rack to cool.
• 5 make butter frosting. spread frosting over top of cake.
• 6 butter frosting.
• 7 beat butter in small bowl with electric mixer until light and fluffy; beat in sifted icing sugar and milk, in two batches.