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Wednesday 28 July 2010

Marble Cake





6oz Butter
6oz Granulated Sugar
6oz Self Raising Flour
1Tsp Baking Powder
3 eggs
1 Tsp Vanilla Essense
2oz Coco powder






Oven Temp: Pre – heat Oven to 180c
Cooking time: Approx. 12-15 minutes in middle of oven
Tin Size: 2x7 inch

1. Cream together the butter and sugar in a bowl
2. Whisk the eggs in a separate bowl
3. Gradually whisk the eggs into the creamed butter mixture until smooth
4. Add the vanilla essence and stir
5. Sieve the flour and baking powder into the mixture and mix in slowly until it forms a smooth dropping like consistency
6. Put half of the mixture into the two greased baking tins
7. Sieve in the coco powder to the rest of the mixture and mix in thoroughly
8. Add this mixture between to the two baking tins and swirl the vanilla and chocolate mixture with a knife
9. Place into oven and bake
10. Once done leave in tin for 5-10 minutes to cool then put on wire rack
11. Once cool you can add the vanilla buttercream icing and filling.

Icing and filling
4.5oz Butter
12oz Icing Sugar
1tbs Milk
Vanilla Essence Flavouring
Chocolate Flake bar

1. Whisk the butter until smooth
2. Sieve in the icing sugar and whisk for a good few minutes
3. Add the milk and whisk until light and fluffy
4. Add the Vanilla Essence Flavouring
5. Layer icing onto each sponge cake
6. Layer cake up and decorate with the crushed by flake bar.

N.B. If your a chocoholic you can use chocolate Icing instead of Vanilla by adding Coco powder to the buttercream Or, you could be daring and do half vanilla and half chocolate.

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