Marble Ring Cake

It s often streaked or mottled in appearance and contains more vanilla cake than chocolate.

Marble ring cake.

Marble cakes aren t as difficult to make as they look. I creamed the butter and sugar together then added the eggs and vanilla 2 tsp. Makes 1 x 25cm 10in cake. By annie bell for mailonline.

Butter and flour for the tin. After toying with a new vanilla cake recipe that is supremely soft and moist i decided to turn that recipe into different cakes for the. Classic marble cake is a mixture of vanilla and chocolate cake that is swirled together creating a marbling effect. It s simply a white cake batter divided with chocolate added to half then marbled together with a butter knife.

My son s birthday is coming up soon and i m thinking of baking this marble cake for him to take to kindergarten. I decided to substitute the cocoa powder for semi sweet chocolate and add more butter for a softer cake. It looked stunning and tasted delicious. In previous years i was never quite comfortable with the idea of serving a chocolate cake to a room full of tiny tots for afternoon tea especially if they all went crazy afterwards on the inevitable sugar high the poor teachers.

Very nice pound cake with just the right amount of sweetness. I cut the recipe in half and baked it in a 9x5 inch glass baking dish. I played around with this recipe a lot.