Chocolate marble cake

🌟 Difficulty	⏱️ Time	🍽️ Serves
★ Easy	55 min	10–12

An easy and old-time-classic cake today. I made it for the school of one of my kids to sell and fund their trip. I chose this cake as many people like this cake and it is true that it disappeared immediately.
The best compliment was the one of my kid that when he saw that the cake was sold immediately, said the sweetest thing to my husband : "Mum has something magic in her hands that makes everything that she cooks delicious" .... Am I not lucky with such kids?

INGREDIENTS  (for a large bundt mold or 26–28 cm cake tin)

• 250 g butter or margarine, softened
• 400 g sugar
• 5 eggs
• 500 g self-raising flour
• 240 ml milk, divided
• 4 tbsp cocoa powder
• 2 tbsp powdered sugar
• ⅛ tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat & prepare: Preheat oven to 180°C (fan). Grease a large cake tin or two smaller molds.
2. Prepare the vanilla batter: Beat butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour, and about ⅔ of the milk for 4–5 minutes until smooth and fluffy.
3. Prepare the chocolate batter: Pour about ⅔ of the batter into the prepared mold. Add cocoa powder, powdered sugar, baking soda, and the remaining milk to the batter left in the bowl. Mix until smooth.
4. Create the marble effect: Spoon the chocolate batter over the vanilla batter. Swirl gently with a knife or skewer to create a marbled pattern without overmixing.
5. Bake: Bake for about 40 minutes, or until golden and a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean.
6. Cool & serve: Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes before unmolding.

TIPS & VARIATIONS

• Do not overmix when swirling to keep a nice marble pattern.
• Perfect for breakfast or tea time.
• Dust with powdered sugar or drizzle with melted chocolate before serving.
• Works well in two smaller loaf tins too.
• Keeps well for 2–3 days in an airtight container.

  

  

Dedicated to a friend Tony, also, that he is German and told me once that I do it exactly as his mother does it and it is also a great compliment for me!