Butter Marble Cake

This is actually another plain butter cake recipe....which my hubby adored. But i wanted to make him something different, so i added chocolate this time to give it a touch of sophistication. But somehow, i added too much chocolate (i added nearly 80g, which is left in my fridge) and it made the cake looks more like chocolate cake...haha! Luckily my hubby took 3 slices straight....and yet he prefers plain ones.....:( At the end, it's my daughter's favourite now! The texture is good....soft and its not sweet.... It really goes well with a cup of coffee.....that's definetely for me!

INGREDIENTS:

(A)

2 cups Cake flour
1 tbsp Baking powder

1/2tsp salt

3/4 cup Butter

1 tsp Vanilla essence

1/2 cup Sugar

3 Egg yolks (Size B)

2/3 cup UHT Full cream milk

(B)

3 Egg whites

1/4tsp Cream of tartar

1/2 cup sugar
45g unsweetened baking chocolate (melted)

**It can be replaced with coffee paste (1/2tbsp coffee melted in 1/2tbsp hot water)

METHOD:

~ Sift flour, baking powder and salt together.

~ Beat (A) butter, sugar and vanilla essense until light and fluffy.

~ Add in egg yolks one at a time

~ Fold in flour and milk alternately (always begin and end with flour). Set aside

~ In another bowl, beat egg whites, cream of tartar and sugar till stiff but not dry.

~ Then fold into egg yolks mixture (A)

~ Separate 3/4 or 1/2 of mixture and add in melted chocolate.

~ In a greased 9" round pan, pour the plain batter and then follow by the chocolate batter.

~ Swirl for marble effect.
~ Bake for 30mins at 180C