Cakes Recipes - Marbled Spice Cake

Ingredients

• 75g butter, softened

• 115g caster sugar

• 2 eggs, lightly beaten

• few drop s vanilla essence

• 130g plain flour

• 7.5ml baking powder 45ml milk

• 45ml black treacle

• 5ml mixed spice

• 2.5ml ground ginger

• 175g icing sugar, sifted, to decorate

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Method:

1. Preheat the oven to lS0'C/350'F/Gas 4. Grease and flour a 900g kugelhopf or ring mould.

2. Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs and vanilla.

3. Sift together the flour and baking powder, then fold into the butter mixture, alternating with the milk.

4. Add the treacle and spices to one-third of the mixture. Drop alternating spoonfuls of the two mixtures into the tin. Run a knife through them to give a marbled effect.

5. Bake for 50 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Leave in the tin for 10 minutes, then turn out on to a wire rack to cool.

6. To decorate, make a smooth icing with the icing sugar and some warm water. Drizzle over the cake and leave to set.