Marble Cake

A marble cake recipe is basically a butter cake in which the main ingredient is butter. Usually made with 2 or more combination of flavours including vanilla, chocolate, orange, coffee etc, marble cake is so named because of the swirl formed by combining the different tones of flavours together which resembles marbles. Considered to be among the quintessential of American baking, it does has its roots buried deep in the English Pound Cake which traditionally uses equal amount of butter, sugar, eggs and flour to produce a heavy, rich cake.
     Marble cake recipe are easy to prepare and have a very good keeping quality. Similar to butter cake, it is a unique way of combining 2 flavours into 1 cake making it more attractive and tasty. Preparing it is easy with the baking video below and you should have no problem at all preparing this for any occasion not to mention it has a very good keeping quality if stored in an airtight container to be enjoyed anytime.

Below is a video showing you how to bake Marble Cake

Recipe
120 gm Unsalted Butter
250 gm Sugar
2 tsp Vanilla Essence
2 nos Whole Eggs
290 gm Soft Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Sodium Bicarbonate
1/4 tsp Salt
80 ml Milk
70 gm Dark Couverture / Bitter Chocolate

Method
1) Cream butter, sugar and vanilla essence together in mixing bowl till smooth.
2) Add in eggs slowly one by one. The best way is to break the eggs (egg yolks) before adding it in to avoid batter splitting.  
3) Make sure batter is completely smooth before proceeding to add the next egg.
4) Add in 1/2 of soft flour, baking powder, sodium bicarbonate and salt. Mix together till batter is smooth.
5) Slowly add in milk while continuing to beat the batter.
6) Add in remaining flour and beat till batter is smooth.
7) Divide batter into 2 equal portion. Melt chocolate by placing it on top of hot water (Bain Marie) and add into 1 portion of the batter. Mix till smooth.
8) Brush shortening on the bottom and sides of a 18cm (7") square baking pan. Line the bottom of pan with grease proof paper to prevent the cake from sticking to the bottom.
9) Scoop the batter into the baking pan alternating between the light and the dark batter.
10) Use the batter of a wooden spoon to swirl batter around evenly forming a marble texture.
11) Bake in oven at 175 C (347 F) for 50 to 55 minutes. Insert a toothpick into centre of cake when done. If inserted toothpick comes out clean, your cake is done.

Recipe makes 1 X 18cmX18cm (7"X7") square baking pan butter cake.