Chocolate Swirl Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• 175 g butter
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/4 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 tablespoons cocoa
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 25 g butter
• 50 g baking chocolate
• 3/4 cup icing sugar, sifted
• 2 tablespoons hot water
• 100 g chocolate (optional)

Recipe

• 1 cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
• 2 add eggs, beating in one at a time.
• 3 sift over flour and baking powder and fold into butter mixture.
• 4 divide the mixture in half. place one half in a separate bowl and mix in vanilla. sift cocoa over other half of mixture and fold inches.
• 5 place alternate tablespoon of mixture into a baking paper-lined 20cm cake tin.
• 6 swirl the mixtures together with wooden skewer.
• 7 bake at 180 c for 35 - 40 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched.
• 8 cool cake a little. turn out onto a cake rack and ice when cold.
• 9 icing: melt butter and chocolate over a low heat, stir in icing sugar.
• 10 add water and mix to combine. spread over cake when cool.
• 11 if you wish to decorate the cake, use a potato peeler and peel chocolate into curls and sprinkle over icing.