Marble cake

Marble cake

Ingredients

• Butter 180 gm
• Vanilla essence 1 tsp
• Sugar ¾ cups
• Eggs 3
• Self raising flour 1 ½ cup
• Milk ½ cup
• Pink color few drops
• Cocoa powder 2 tbsp mixed with 2 tbsp milk

Ingredients for strawberry butter cream

• Butter 4 ounces
• Icing sugar 1 cup heaped
• Milk 1 to 2 tbsp
• Pink food color 2 drops
• Strawberry essence ½ tsp
  

Method for cake

• Lightly grease an 8 inch ring cake pan, cover base with paper and grease paper. Beat the butter, caster sugar and essence together until light and fluffy. Add the eggs 1 at a time, beating well. Fold in sifted flour and milk in 2 batches. Divide the mixture evenly between 3 bowls. Add pink food color in 1 bowl, mix well, stir cocoa mixture into another bowl, and mix well. Drop spoonfuls of each mixture into prepared pan, run a knife through cake mixture for a marble effect. Bake for 40 minutes on 180 degree C, and once baked, remove on to a wire rack to cool.
  

For icing

• Beat butter and icing sugar till creamy. Add milk, mix well, and divide the mixture between 2 bowls. Use pink color in 1 bowl, and drop alternate spoonfuls of pink and white icing on top of the cooled cake. Using a palette knife, swirl the icing to give a marble effect.