Marble Cake

So today's recipe is not very linked to Christmas, but hey ho!

this recipe is from Paul Hollywood's 'How To Bake' and can be found here.

Ingredients

200g unsalted softened butter
200g caster sugar
1.5 tsp vanilla extract
3 large eggs
250g plain flour
3 tsp baking powder
40ml milk (the recipe suggests full-fat, but I used semi-skimmed)
2 tsp cocoa powder
Icing sugar for dusting

Step 1

Preheat your oven to 180 degrees Celsius (about 160 in fan oven). Also line a loaf tin with baking parchment.

Step 2

Beat in the butter, 180g of sugar and vanilla extract together until it looks something like this.

Step 3

Beat in the eggs one at a time. After that sift in the flour and baking powder and fold in with 2 tbsp of milk. by this point it should look something like this.

Step 4

Put two thirds of the mixture into the loaf tin (filling the tin to about three-quarters full).

Step 5

Sift cocoa powder and the remaining 20g of sugar into the mixture and mix with the rest of the milk. Then pour the chocolate mixture into the loaf tin.

Step 6

Run a fork through the mixture, creating the marble effect.

Step 7

The recipe says to bake for 55-70 minutes. I baked it for about 45 minutes. However my fan oven has an innate ability to burn anything bigger than a muffin!

Step 8

Leave to cool on a wire rack and then dust with icing sugar.

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