Marble Cake

This cake is a very simple cake and anyone can make this cake, i hope you enjoy. The cake has a lovely delicious easy to make chocolate cake filling.

1. 1

   Preheat the oven to 180C/gas 160C/gas4.

2. 2

   Cream the margarine and caster sugar together in a bowl, until pale and fluffy.

3. 3

   Once the margarine and caster sugar has turned pale and fluffy, beat in the eggs one by one.

4. 4

   Sift the flour and baking powder into the batter then fold in the flour and baking powder.

5. 5

   Split half the cake batter into another bowl.

6. 6

   In one of the bowls, add the vanilla essence and mix together.

7. 7

   In the bowl without the vanilla essence, sift in the 20g cocoa powder and mix till it is all combined.

8. 8

   Prepare both of your 18cm cake tins.

9. 9

   Once prepared, spread the vanilla cake batter between both cake tins.

10. 10

    Add in dollops of the chocolate cake mixture.

11. 11

    Get a skewer and create a marble effect by swirling it around the mixture in the tin.

12. 12

    Once the marble effect has been created, place into the oven for 20 to 25 minutes, until the cake is golden brown on top and when a skewer is placed in it comes out clear.

13. 13

    Whilst the cake is cooling, melt the butter.

14. 14

    Add in the icing sugar and 25g cocoa powder and mix together until it becomes thick.

15. 15

    Once thick, add in the milk to thin it out.

16. 16

    Once the cake has cooled, spread the filling on one of the cakes and then place the cake with no filling on top.