Nana’s Chocolate Mint Marble Cake
Ready In: 1 hr 10 mins
Serves: 10-12
Ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 cups self raising flour
- 1 pinch salt
- 2 tablespoons cocoa
- 3⁄4 cup butter
- 1 cup caster sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 -3 drops peppermint extract
Icing
- 1⁄2 cup chocolate chips (for baking)
- 2 tablespoons cold water
- 3 teaspoons butter
- 1 1⁄2 cups icing sugar
Directions
- Grease and flour an 8” cake tin, set oven at 200degC (400degF).
- Sift flour and salt, divide into halves.
- Cream butter and sugar until light; add eggs separately, beating well, divide.
- To one bowl add flour, cocoa mixture and fold gently.
- Fold remaining flour and peppermint essence into other bowl.
- Spoon half white mixture into prepared tin, top with chocolate mixture and then remaining white, smooth top and run knife through in a figure eight.
- Bake 50 minutes.
- Icing; Melt chopped chocolate over pan of hot water(or very low in microwave), add cold water, butter and icing sugar and stir until smooth and glossy - use immediately.
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