Marble Ring Cake

I played around with this recipe a lot.

Marble ring cake.

100g 3 oz dark. By annie bell for mailonline. Very nice pound cake with just the right amount of sweetness. 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 looked stunning and tasted delicious. Classic marble cake is a mixture of vanilla and chocolate cake that is swirled together creating a marbling effect. It s often streaked or mottled in appearance and contains more vanilla cake than chocolate. It s simply a white cake batter divided with chocolate added to half then marbled together with a butter knife.

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 made a marbled chocolate ring cake from mary berry s baking bible for my husband s birthday. 17 53 edt 21 april 2012. I decided to substitute the cocoa powder for semi sweet chocolate and add more butter for a softer cake.

I creamed the butter and sugar together then added the eggs and vanilla 2 tsp. Makes 1 x 25cm 10in cake. My son s birthday is coming up soon and i m thinking of baking this marble cake for him to take to kindergarten.