Marble cake by Shireen Anwar

Ingredients:

• Butter 180 gm
• Vanilla Essence 1 tsp
• Sugar ¾ cups
• Eggs 3
• Self Raising Flour 1 ½ cup
• Milk ½ cup
• Pink Color few drops
• Cocoa Powder 2 tbsp
• Milk 2 tbsp
• Ingredients for strawberry butter cream
• Butter 4 ounces
• Icing Sugar 1 cup heaped
• Milk 1 to 2 tbsp
• Pink Food Color 2 drops
• Strawberry Essence ½ tsp

Method:

1. For cake
   Lightly grease an 8 inch ring cake pan, cover base with paper and grease paper.
2. Beat the butter, caster sugar and essence together until light and fluffy.
3. Add the eggs 1 at a time, beating well. Fold in sifted flour and milk in 2 batches.
4. Divide the mixture evenly between 3 bowls.
5. Add pink food color in 1 bowl, mix well, stir cocoa mixture into another bowl, and mix well.
6. Drop spoonfuls of each mixture into prepared pan, run a knife through cake mixture for a marble effect.
7. Bake for 40 minutes on 180 degree C, and once baked, remove on to a wire rack to cool.
8. For icing
9. Beat butter and icing sugar till creamy.
10. Add milk, mix well, and divide the mixture between 2 bowls.
11. Use pink color in 1 bowl, and drop alternate spoonfuls of pink and white icing on top of the cooled cake.
12. Using a palette knife, swirl the icing to give a marble effect.