Chocolate Swirl Cake

Two in one.

• Ready In: 1 hr 10 mins
• Yields: 1 cake

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

• Chocolate and Vanilla Icing

• 25  g butter
• 50  g baking chocolate
• 3⁄4 cup icing sugar, sifted
• 2  tablespoons hot water
• 100  g white chocolate (optional)

Directions

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 white chocolate into curls and sprinkle over icing.