Marble cake

Yesterday I baked a childhood favourite, marble cake. (Anyone remember this from school dinners?) A simple recipe, yet so delicious. It has a beautiful soft sponge, which is a mix of vanilla and chocolate. Dribble some warm custard over a slice and that's a little bit of heaven right there.

Ingredients:

225g butter, softened// 225g caster sugar// 4 eggs// 225g self-raising flour 

3 tbsp milk// 1 tsp vanilla extract// 2 tbsp cocoa powder

-Beat the butter and sugar together until creamy.

-Add in the eggs one at a time and mix.

Add the flour, vanilla extract, and 2 tbsp of milk and mix until the batter is smooth.

-Divide the mixture in to two bowls.

-Add 2 tbsp of cocoa powder to one of the cake mixtures and mix in.

- Take two spoons and taking turns, add the two cake mixtures to a buttered or lined cake tin.

-Take a skewer and swirl it around in the mixture to create a marbled effect.

-Bake the cake for 40-45 minutes at 180c. You will know the cake is ready when a tooth pick is inserted in to the centre of the cake and it comes out clean.

I love the marble pattern.