Melody Teh

Food & Wine

Marble loaf cake

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:

  1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Grease/line the base of a 13x23cm loaf pan. 
  2. Use electric mixer to combine sugar, butter and vanilla until creamy. Add eggs one at a time and continue beating mixture.
  3. Fold flour into combined ingredients, adding milk throughout and divide into three portions. 
  4. First portion: leave plain. Second portion: add 3 drops of pink food colouring. Third portion: add soda, cocoa and 1 tablespoon of milk. 
  5. Pour each colour into pan, alternating between the three. 
  6. Use a skewer to lightly draw circles throughout the batter to smear the colours. 
  7. 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.)
  8. Let cool and turn to icing: sift coca and icing sugar together and add butter and water to mixture, beating until smooth. 
  9. Spread icing over marble cake.

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