Marble Butter Cake

This marble cake uses the basic butter cake receipe from Agnes Chang's Baking Made Easy, but as usual, I tweaked the receipe slightly.  It is important to beat the batter for a longer period of time in order to yield an extremely soft cake.

Marble Butter Cake



Ingredients

250g           Butter
250g           Self-Raising Flour
220g           Sugar
4                  Eggs
5 tbsp         Milk
1 tsp            Vanilla Extract
1 tsp            Cocoa Powder
2 tsp            Hot Water

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 170°C.
2. Prepare a lined 9" or 10" square pan.
3. Sift the flour, set aside.
4. In an mixing bowl, beat butter and sugar till pale and fluffy.
5. Scrape the mixing bowl, add in the 1st egg and beat till sugar has totally melted.
6. Add the eggs 1 at a time, beating thoroughly and scraping the mixing bowl in between till all eggs have been added.
7. Mix in the flour in 3 portions.
8. Add in the milk, and finally the vanilla extract.
9. Mix the cocoa powder and hot water till all cocoa powder dissolves.
10. Add in 3 tbsp of the cake batter into the cocoa powder paste.
11. Pour in half the cake batter, followed by drizzling half of the cocoa batter.
12. Pour in the rest of the cake batter and cocoa batter.
13. Use a chopstick to mix both the batters slightly.
14. Bake in the oven for approximately 15-20 mins.