Chocolate marble cake

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1. Video tutorial: Lining a cake tin

1. Heat oven to 180C/gas 160C/gas 4. Grease a 20cm cake tin and line the bottom with a circle of greaseproof paper. If you want to make life easy, simply put all the ingredients (except the cocoa powder) into a food processor and whizz for 1-2 mins until smooth. If you prefer to mix by hand, beat the butter and sugar together, then add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Fold through the flour, milk and vanilla extract until the mixture is smooth.
2. Divide the mixture between 2 bowls. Stir the cocoa powder into the mixture in one of the bowls. Take 2 spoons and use them to dollop the chocolate and vanilla cake mixes into the tin alternately. When all the mixture has been used up (and if young kids are doing this, you'll need to ensure the base of the tin is fairly evenly covered), tap the bottom on your work surface to ensure that there aren't any air bubbles. Take a skewer and swirl it around the mixture in the tin a few times to create a marbled effect.
3. Bake the cake for 45-55 mins until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Turn out onto a cooling rack and leave to cool. Will keep for 3 days in an airtight container or freeze for up to 3 months.

Per serving

468 kcalories, protein 6g, carbohydrate 52g, fat 27 g, saturated fat 16g, fibre 1g, salt 0.81 g

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• damienmal

  24 October 2009

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  brilliant!!!!

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• Anne Marie

  26 October 2009

  Anne Marie rated and commented on this recipe

  

  We loved this cake, didn't even last for 24 hours. next time I'm going to do the orange version as suggested in one of the earlier posts. I'm also planning a "blood curdling" one for Halloween!!!!

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• SophieCakes

  02 November 2009

  SophieCakes commented on this recipe

  I made this for Halloween with ready to roll icing which i made into a pumpkin ! It worked really well! <a href="http://s25.photobucket.com/albums/c61/etniestar/?action=view&current=pumkincake.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c61/etniestar/pumkincake.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

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• Andy

  19 November 2009

  Andy commented on this recipe

  I didn't have self-raising flour so I added half a teaspoon of baking powder. It came out ok but was not very soft and fluffy. Wonder what I did wrong

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Ingredients

• 225g butter , softened
• 225g caster sugar
• 4 eggs
• 225g self-raising flour
• 3 tbsp milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 tbsp cocoa powder

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Serves 8

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Prep 15 mins

Cook 45 mins

Ingredients

• 225g butter , softened
• 225g caster sugar
• 4 eggs
• 225g self-raising flour
• 3 tbsp milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 tbsp cocoa powder

Per serving

468 kcalories, protein 6g, carbohydrate 52g, fat 27 g, saturated fat 16g, fibre 1g, salt 0.81 g

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