Marble Cake recipe
This is our absolute favourite bake at home and the children love to both make it and eat it afterwards. Simple and satisfying to make, it's always a lovely afternoon tea treat.
Servings 1 loaf cake
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 185 g butter
- 230 g caster sugar
- 3 eggs
- 280 g self raising flour
- 185 ml milk
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200c/400f/Gas 6.
- Grease and line the base of a loaf tin.
- Put the vanilla, butter and sugar in a bowl and cream until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time beating well after each one.
- Sift the flour and fold into the creamed mixture a little at a time, alternating with the milk until it's all combined.
- Put half the mixture into another bowl.
- Add the cocoa powder to one half and mix well.
- Alternate spoonfuls of each mixture into the prepared loaf tin. Cut through the mixture a few times with a skewer to give a marble effect.
- Bake for 50-60 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. Leave in the tin to cool slightly before turning out onto a wire rack.
*Note: Nutritional information is estimated, based on publicly available data. Nutrient values may vary from those published.