Marble Butter Cake

Butter cream is one of my favorite frosting. Make this super marble cake recipe at home and rest assure your kids would adore it!

Ingredients

• 220 gm ‏flour
• 220 gm ‏castor sugar
• 220 gm ‏butter
• 3 teaspoon ‏baking powder
• few drops ‏vanilla essence
• 2 tablespoons ‏cocoa powder
• 1 tablespoon ‏milk
• pinch of ‏salt for icing
• 2 tablespoons ‏butter
• 1 cup ‏icing sugar
• some ‏water

Directions:

1. Take butter at room temperature, add sugar and beat with an egg beater till it mixes. Add eggs, one by one and beat long enough till the mixture increases in volume, becomes pale yellow and fluffy. Add vanilla essence too. Put away the egg beater as it is no more required now

2. Mix flour and baking powder in a separate bowl and sift them at least once. With a large spoon mix the sifted flour with the egg mixture till it just combines. Do not over mix

3. If you want to make a marble cake, take out half a cup of the mixture and add milk, cocoa powder salt and sugar in it till every thing Combines. Pour half of the vanilla mixture in a greased oven pan, pour the chocolate mixture in the middle in the form of an O, pour over the rest of the vanilla mixture.

4.  Use toothpick test to check the cakes doneness, takes roughly 50 minutes to bake in a preheated oven at 175 deg C. For Icing combine melted butter, icing sugar and just enough water to make the icing that isn’t too hard or too watery. Apply on cake when the cake has cooled down.