Marble Ring Cake

Marble cakes aren t as difficult to make as they look.

Marble ring cake.

It looked stunning and tasted delicious. I decided to substitute the cocoa powder for semi sweet chocolate and add more butter for a softer cake. I made a marbled chocolate ring cake from mary berry s baking bible for my husband s birthday. By annie bell for mailonline.

In previous years i was never quite comfortable with the idea of serving a chocolate cake to a room full of tiny tots for afternoon tea especially if they all went crazy afterwards on the inevitable sugar high the poor teachers. It s often streaked or mottled in appearance and contains more vanilla cake than chocolate. I played around with this recipe a lot. My son s birthday is coming up soon and i m thinking of baking this marble cake for him to take to kindergarten.

Makes 1 x 25cm 10in cake. After toying with a new vanilla cake recipe that is supremely soft and moist i decided to turn that recipe into different cakes for the. I creamed the butter and sugar together then added the eggs and vanilla 2 tsp. I cut the recipe in half and baked it in a 9x5 inch glass baking dish.

17 53 edt 21 april 2012. 100g 3 oz dark. Butter and flour for the tin.