Food & Wine
Marble loaf cake
This seemingly intricate classic marble loaf cake is a lot easier to make than it looks.
Ingredients:
- 125g of chopped butter
- ¾ cup of caster sugar
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 cup of milk + 1 tablespoon of milk
- 2 cups of sifted self-rising flour
- 3 drops of pink food colouring
- 2 tablespoons of sifted powdered cocoa
- 1/3 tablespoon of bicarb soda
Icing:
- 2 cups of icing sugar
- 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder
- 15g of butter
- 2 tablespoons of hot water
Method:
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Grease/line the base of a 13x23cm loaf pan.
- Use electric mixer to combine sugar, butter and vanilla until creamy. Add eggs one at a time and continue beating mixture.
- Fold flour into combined ingredients, adding milk throughout and divide into three portions.
- First portion: leave plain. Second portion: add 3 drops of pink food colouring. Third portion: add soda, cocoa and 1 tablespoon of milk.
- Pour each colour into pan, alternating between the three.
- Use a skewer to lightly draw circles throughout the batter to smear the colours.
- Smooth the top of the mixture and bake for 50-55 minutes. (Poke a skewer into marble cake to test. If it comes back bare, it is cooked.)
- Let cool and turn to icing: sift coca and icing sugar together and add butter and water to mixture, beating until smooth.
- Spread icing over marble cake.
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