Marble Ring Cake

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

Marble ring cake.

Butter and flour for the tin. I decided to substitute the cocoa powder for semi sweet chocolate and add more butter for a softer cake. I played around with this recipe a lot. It s often streaked or mottled in appearance and contains more vanilla cake than chocolate.

I made a marbled chocolate ring cake from mary berry s baking bible for my husband s birthday. 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. Classic marble cake is a mixture of vanilla and chocolate cake that is swirled together creating a marbling effect.

It s simply a white cake batter divided with chocolate added to half then marbled together with a butter knife. 17 53 edt 21 april 2012. 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. It looked stunning and tasted delicious.

By annie bell for mailonline. 100g 3 oz dark. I cut the recipe in half and baked it in a 9x5 inch glass baking dish.