Rose Marble Bundt Cake

Hi everyone,

Sorry we haven't posted any recipes in a while. Last week I made a marble cake using a brand new cake tin I brought in Yorkshire. It's a Bundt tin (the tin with a hole in the middle of it). The ladies of my bible study group enjoyed the fruits of my labour and the cake went down a treat.

So here's how to make it:

Equipment:

1 Bundt Cake Tin (roughly the size of a 20cm sandwich tin)

Ingredients:

For the Cake:

180g Butter (at room temperature, plus extra for greasing)

225g Caster Sugar

2 tsp Baking Powder

180g Plain Flour

3 Medium Eggs

2 tbsp Milk

1 tsp Vanilla Extract

3 tbsp Cocoa Powder (mixed with 3 tbsp hot water to make a paste)

For the Icing (Optional):

100g Icing Sugar

20g Cocoa Powder

1-2 tsp of cold (not ice cold) water

Method:

1. Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Lightly grease the bundt tin with butter.

2. In a clean bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add the Vanilla Extract and combine.

3. In a jug/bowl mix the 3 eggs together and add them to the creamed mixture little by little whisking as you go.

4. Add the milk and combine.

5. Sift in the flour and baking powder and lightly whisk the mixture until combined.

6. Spoon half of the mixture into another bowl and mix in the cocoa powder paste.

7. Add spoonful's of each mixture into the bundt tin. Using a butter knife/spatula or palette knife swirl the mixture in the tin to create a marble effect.

8. Bake in the oven for 40 minutes. The cake will be ready is a skewer poked into the cake comes out clean. Leave the cake in the tin to cool completely.

9. Using a butter knife, carefully edge around the cake to loosen it. Turn the cake out onto a cooling rack.

10. In a bowl, make the icing up using icing sugar, a little water and a pea sized amount of cocoa powder. The cocoa powder makes the rose colour. If the icing is too runny, add more icing sugar. If the icing is too thick, add a little more water. The icing should be reasonably thick but spreadable. Spread/drizzle the icing (anyway you want) to decorate the cake (I covered the cake in icing twice.) You could also just dust some icing sugar over it.

Enjoy!

Lily x