Marble Cake

Marble Cake

Ingredients

1. All Purpose flour/Maida -1 1/2 cup
2. Baking powder -1 1/2 tsp
3. Salt -1/8 tsp
4. Egg- 2
5. Sugar -1 cup
6. Unsalted Butter -1/2 cup + 1tsp
7. Unsweetened Cocoa Powder -2 tsp
8. Milk -1/4 cup
9. Vanilla extract -1 1/2 tsp

Directions

• Preheat the oven for 350 degrees .Generously butter a cake pan and keep it aside
• Melt the butter in an oven for 30 seconds
• Mix the melted butter and sugar using a hand blender until it become light and fluffy
• Beat the eggs and combine with the butter and sugar mixture
• Add vanilla extract and mix well
• Whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt and keep it aside.
• Add flour mixture in 4 batches, alternating with the milk and beginning and ending with the flour.
• In another bowl take the 1/2 portion of the batter and add cocoa powder and mix well
• Spoon batters into the prepared pan in 2 layers, alternating spoonfuls of vanilla and chocolate to simulate a checkerboard. To create marbling, run a table knife or fork through the batters in a swirling motion.
• Bake it for 40 to 50 minutes(until an inserted wooden pick/knife comes out clean). Transfer pan to a rack to cool 20 minutes. Turn out cake from pan and cool completely on the rack. 
• Cake can be kept in an airtight container at room temperature up to 3 day.