Chocolate Vanilla Marble Cake

Chocolate Vanilla Marble Cake

Sometimes the simple things are the best and this cake is so easy to make. Its lovely and moist and if you use really good quality cocoa and vanilla bean paste it tastes fab. There is no faffing with icing or glazes and because of this it makes an ideal lunchbox cake as there is no sticky mess to deal with afterwards!

Chocolate Marble Cake
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Yield: 10 Slices

Chocolate Vanilla Marble Cake

An easy chocolate and vanilla marble cake
prep time: 10 minscook time: 45 minstotal time: 55 mins

ingredients:

  • 225g Butter, softened
  • 225g Caster Sugar
  • Eggs
  • 225g Plain Flour
  • 2 TSP Baking Powder
  • 50ml Milk
  • 1 TSP Vanilla Paste
  • 50g Cocoa Powder, sifted

instructions

Step 1: Preheat oven to 180°c and grease a 20cm springform tin.
Step 2: Cream butter in a bowl and add sugar until mixture is light and fluffy.
Step 3: Whisk eggs and gradually add to butter mixture, beating all the time.
Step 4: Fold in the flour, baking powder and milk then divide the mixture between 2 bowls.
Step 5: Add the vanilla bean paste to one bowl and stir gently through and add the cocoa powder into the other and fold in until combined.
Step 6: Place alternating dollops of mixture into the tin and then with a skewer gently marble it.
Step 7: Bake for about 45 minutes.


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2 comments

  1. Never heard of vanilla bean paste. Can you enlighten please.

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  2. I use vanilla paste from LittlePod. However you could replace with 2TSP of extract if you can't find any vanilla paste in the supermarket

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