Two for the price of one

Marble cake

Made: May 6, 2011

For the final week of the Friday Night Doubles league, I wanted to make something. Since I can't decide what to make and like to please the masses; I picked a marble cake. Best of both worlds. :D

Ingredients

- 2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup butter; softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup milk
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

Directions

- Preheat oven to 350 F
- Grease and flour baking pan
- Place flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla and milk into a mixing bowl
- Beat slowly to moisten, then beat with an electric mixer at medium speed for about 2 minutes until smooth
- Reserve 3/4 cup of the batter; pour the remainder into the pan.
- Stir cocoa into the 3/4 cup reserved batter.
- Drop by spoonfuls over top of white batter.
- Using a knife, swirl the cocoa batter into the white batter to incorporate it in a marble effect.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes, until toothpick comes out clean.

 I used a 9inx13in rectangle baking pan; the recipe called for a 9in round pan. This was a fairly easy cake to make :) I'm very pleased with the outcome! :D You don't have to icing the cake, but I did half to have some variation for people today. :)

(Recipe used: allrecipes)