Marble Ring Cake

Makes 1 x 25cm 10in cake.

Marble ring cake.

It looked stunning and tasted delicious. Very nice pound cake with just the right amount of sweetness. Marble cakes aren t as difficult to make as they look. 17 53 edt 21 april 2012.

I cut the recipe in half and baked it in a 9x5 inch glass baking dish. 100g 3 oz dark. By annie bell for mailonline. In previous years i was never quite comfortable with the idea of serving a chocolate cake to a room full of tiny tots for afternoon tea especially if they all went crazy afterwards on the inevitable sugar high the poor teachers.

I decided to substitute the cocoa powder for semi sweet chocolate and add more butter for a softer cake. I played around with this recipe a lot. It s often streaked or mottled in appearance and contains more vanilla cake than chocolate. It s simply a white cake batter divided with chocolate added to half then marbled together with a butter knife.

Butter and flour for the tin. I creamed the butter and sugar together then added the eggs and vanilla 2 tsp. Classic marble cake is a mixture of vanilla and chocolate cake that is swirled together creating a marbling effect.