Two Tiered Marble Cake- My Mum's Birthday Cake

Hey guys,

Today I thought that I would share with you the recipe that I have done for my mum's birthday cake. I have put a twist on this cake and added a cream in the middle.

Ingredients: 

200g of caster sugar
200g of unsalted butter, softened
4 eggs
130g of self-raising flour
90g of cocoa powder
1 tsp of baking powder
2 tsp of milk
450ml of double cream, whipped
Small pack of  Maltesers, to decorate

Method: 

1. Preheat the oven to 190C/170C fan and line or grease two Victoria sponge tins.

2. Beat the caster sugar and the butter together in a large bowl. Once pale and fluffy and in the eggs, one at a time.

3. Then add in the flour, little by little. Split the mixture in half, keeping one half in a bowl and to the other half add the cocoa powder.

4. Add 1/2 tsp of baking powder to each mixture, if it needs loosening up add in some milk.

5. Then add half of the chocolatey mixture to each cake tin and do the same with the plain mixture. Then, using a skewer swirl the mixture together. Pop in the oven for 20 mins or until it bounces back when you touch it softly.

6. While the cake is cooling on a wire rack, whip the cream until it creates soft peaks. Then leave to rest for a couple of minutes and pop it into a piping bag with a rose shaped nozzle.

7. Put a layer of cream on the top of one of the cakes once it has cooled. Then sandwich the other layer of cake on top. Then do ........... swirls around the edge of the cake and pop a malteser on each of the swirls.

You can then enjoy! If you want to make this for the next day just bake the cakes and assemble when you want to eat it so that the cream has not gone overly stiff. If you bake this cake or any other recipe from my blog then please use the hashtag #bakingwithbbb. Thank you,

Xx.