CHOCOLATE SWIRL CAKE

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Make and share this Chocolate Swirl Cake recipe from Food.com.

Provided by Doreen Randal

Categories     Dessert

Time 1h10m

Yield 1 cake

Number Of Ingredients 12

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 white chocolate (optional)

Steps:

  • Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
  • Add eggs, beating in one at a time.
  • Sift over flour and baking powder and fold into butter mixture.
  • 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.
  • Place alternate tablespoon of mixture into a baking paper-lined 20cm cake tin.
  • Swirl the mixtures together with wooden skewer.
  • Bake at 180 C for 35 - 40 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched.
  • Cool cake a little. Turn out onto a cake rack and ice when cold.
  • Icing: Melt butter and chocolate over a low heat, stir in icing sugar.
  • Add water and mix to combine. Spread over cake when cool.
  • If you wish to decorate the cake, use a potato peeler and peel white chocolate into curls and sprinkle over icing.

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