Chocolate Mint Marble Cake

pix courtesy of “My Periuk Belanga”

This is one of my family favourite cake.  Usually when I bake it, I would use muffin cups instead of the cake tin.  The pixs above is taken from “My Kitchen Is Burning”, its from her that I got to bake this wonderful cake.

Ingredients :

200 g self-raising flour – sieve
230 g butter
220 g castor sugar
5 eggs – medium size
1 tsp vanilla essence
20 g cocoa powder – sieve
50 ml fresh milk
a few drops of green colouring
2-3 drop of mint essence (if prefer more of the mist taste can drop more…)

Method :

1.  Heat the oven at 180 degree celcius.  Line the cake tin with baking paper and grease it with a little butter.

2.  Beat the flour with butter till it became like a paste.

3.  In a different container, beat the eggs together with the sugar using high speed till white and fluffy. Add in vanilla essence and beat again for a while.

4.  Mix the eggs mixture into the flour mixture and beat thoroughly.

5.  Divide the mixture into two.  The first one add the cocoa powder alternating with the fresh milk.

6). The second one add the green colouring and mint essence.

7.  Scoop the chocolate mixture first and pour it into the cake tin (in the middle of the cake tin) and then add the mint mixture on top of the chocolate mixture.  Do this alternately until finish.

8.  Once done, using a fork or a chop stick, make a swirl pattern on the cake tin so that it will looks like a marble pattern.

9.  Bake in the oven for about 40-45 mins or until it cooks.