Chocolate and vanilla marble cake

Such a simple cake to make but its soooo good!...well, at least to me...and to my family. My mum will always request for this cake to be baked for gatherings or for giveaways...Got this recipe from Rachel Allen @ Good Food Channel website...I've listed the recipe below anyway...

Here goes...

Ingredients ~

225g butter, at room temperature (I just use the whole slab which is 250g)

225g caster sugar (i reduced it slightly as I don't like it too sweet)

4 eggs

2tsp vanilla extract (mine's essence)

225g plain flour

2tsp baking powder

50ml milk

50g cocoa powder, sifted (me lazy, me no sift...muahahahahahaha!)

Lets get started...

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/gas 4. Butter and flour the sides of a 20cm cake tin and line the base with greaseproof paper.

2. Cream the butter in a large bowl or in an electric food mixer until soft. Add the sugar and beat until the mixture is light and fluffy.

3. Whisk the eggs and vanilla extract together in a small bowl. Gradually add the eggs to the butter mixture, beating all the time. Sift in the flour and baking powder and fold in gently to mix, then add the milk and mix gently to combine.

4. Tip half of the cake mixture into another large bowl and, into this bowl, fold in the sifted cocoa powder.

5. Place the cake mixtures into the prepared tin by alternating spoonfuls of the vanilla batter with the chocolate batter, then with a skewer or similar implement, gently draw swirls through the cake mixture to ‘marblise’ it. Don’t overmix or you won’t have that wonderful marble effect. Bake in the oven for 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. (I didn't do the swirling as suggested. I just piled on the chocolate and the vanilla batter, shake the cake tin abit to level the batter...)

6. Turn the cake out onto a wire rack and allow to cool before serving.

I love Rachel Allen!