Cake ( Vanilla- Chocolate cake)

Baking is always fun, especially when you have kids to help …  :)) they just love playing with the batter, help in each and every step from beating the eggs to buttering the cake tray, They have their hand in all. 

This is a very simple recipe from my sister in law, with some variations from my side.  I’ve a group of cake lovers around me… and I dedicate this recipe to all of them. 

This is not the typical vanilla - chocolate swirl cake as the chocolate portion in this preparation is very low and instead of the dark coco powder, here i used the drinking chocolate powder. 

Ingredients:

2 ½ cups self raising flour
Eggs -4
Powdered sugar- 1 ½ cups
Oil (Sunflower oil) – 1 cup
Milk – 1 cup
Baking powder- 1 teaspoon
Vanilla essence – 1 teaspoon
Chocolate powder- 2 table spoon

 Preparation:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour cake pan.
• In a bowl combine flour and baking powder with a wire whisk.
• Separate the egg whites from yolk, beat the whites separately , Add sugar, Add vanilla and mix until completely combines. Slowly add flour alternately with milk. finally stir in the oil , At end of addition batter should be smooth.
• Divide the mixture between 2 bowls.  Stir the chocolate powder into the mixture in one of the bowls. Take 2 spoons and use them to dollop the chocolate and vanilla cake mixes into the tin alternately. When all the mixture has been used up  tap the bottom  to ensure that there aren't any air bubbles. Take a knife and swirl it around the mixture in the pan a few times to create a marbled effect.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool cake in pan, and on a wire rack, for 10 minutes. Remove cake from pan, and cool completely.