MArble Cake

Today is one of those brilliant autumn days, a little cold this morning, but now a beautiful warm day. The kids are been playing outside and I have been baking. With a little help from Adele, though I am sure it was just so she could lick the bowl. The aim for today was to bake a cake and to finish some half done projects, I have baked my cake and made a small head way into some binding on a quilt, so all and all pretty good. It is only 10 o'clock after all.

So the cake, a beauty from Donna Hay (who saw her on Master Chef, she is so nice), her Chocolate Cookbook, so it is a chocolate cake. Half and half vanilla and chocolate.

250 grams Butter
1 and 1/4 cups of sugar
1 teaspoon of vanilla
3 eggs
2 and 1/4 cups of flour
3/4 cup of milk
4 and 1/2 tablespoons cocoa
3 tablespoons sugar
1 and 1/2 tablespoons of milk

Sugar, butter and vanilla in a bowl and beat, add eggs, beat well. Dry ingredients, mix and then milk. At this point half the mixture, put in tow bowls. In one bowl add the remainder of ingredients. Using a 22 cm round tin spoon mixture, making a mix of the colour. Bake for 1 and 1/4 at 180.

I love this cake because people think it is tricky, but it isn't.
See cooking as we "speak". I am going into Blair's work today to have lunch with him, there is a large team of people and they quite like cake, so hopefully this will help ease the fact they are working on a Saturday!






Tx