Marble Cake
Ingredients
- All Purpose flour/Maida -1 1/2 cup
- Baking powder -1 1/2 tsp
- Salt -1/8 tsp
- Egg- 2
- Sugar -1 cup
- Unsalted Butter -1/2 cup + 1tsp
- Unsweetened Cocoa Powder -2 tsp
- Milk -1/4 cup
- 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.
