Marble cake - Chocolate and Vanilla Marble Cake / Zebra Cake

Marble cake - a cute cake that makes both chocolates lovers and vanilla lovers happy. A beautiful cake made by only basic ingredients and easy recipe and amuse everyone by its look and taste.

Preparation Time:15 min
Baking time:50 min
Serves:6-8



Ingredients needed:



All purpose flour - 2 cup
Baking powder - 1 tbsp
Salt - a pinch
Egg - 4
Granulated Sugar - 1 cup
Vanilla essence - 2 tsp
Milk - 1 cup
Oil - 1 cup
Cocoa powder - 3 Tbsp
All purpose flour and Cocoa powder mix - 1 Tbsp (For dusting the cake pan)
Butter - For greasing the pan




Preparation:



Preheat the oven to 350F.
Grease the baking pan with butter and dust with flour and cocoa mix and set aside.
Sieve or mix together the dry ingredients - flour, baking powder and salt.
In a separate mixing bowl, beat together egg and sugar until creamy using a whisk or hand mixer.
Add vanilla essence to it and mix well.
Add milk and oil to it and mix well.
Gently fold in the flour mixture to it.
Then divide the batter to two equal parts.
To one part add in the cocoa powder and mix well.
Both chocolate and vanilla cake batter is ready.


Now to bring the marble effect to the cake, take the greased pan and pour couple of tbsp of vanilla cake batter. Then pour the chocolate batter and repeat the process for the whole batter.


Bake this in a preheated oven for about 40-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
Let it cool down before removing from the pan.



Notes:

• You can use 9 inch round cake pan to make this cake.
• I have used 2 pans , the loaf pan and 4 cup round pan. So it take only 40 minute to bake.