Name: Marble cakes with caramel icing
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 50 min
Ingredients: Caramel icing; 1/2 cup brown sugar; 60 gram butter; 1/4 cup milk; 3/4 cup icing-sugar mixture, sifted; 125 gram butter, at room temperature, chopped; 3/4 cup caster sugar; 2 eggs; 2 cup self-raising flour, sifted; 1/2 cup milk; 2 tablespoon cocoa powder; 2 tablespoon warm water; few drops pink food colouring

Marble cakes with caramel icing

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Makes 12 Item

Prep

20M

Cook

30M

Total

50M

Ingredients

Caramel icing

1/2 cup brown sugar

60 gram butter

1/4 cup milk

3/4 cup icing-sugar mixture, sifted

125 gram butter, at room temperature, chopped

3/4 cup caster sugar

2 eggs

2 cup self-raising flour, sifted

1/2 cup milk

2 tablespoon cocoa powder

2 tablespoon warm water

few drops pink food colouring

Method

Marble cakes with caramel icing

1.Preheat oven to moderate, 180°C. Lightly grease a 12-hole mini loaf or friand pan.

2.In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar together using an electric mixer until pale and creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating.

3.Lightly fold flour into creamed mixture, alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour. Divide mixture evenly into 3 portions.

4.Leave one portion plain, add combined cocoa and water to another portion, and a few drops of food colouring to the remaining portion.

5.Drop alternate colours into each hole of prepared pan until 2/3 full. Swirl gently with a skewer.

6.Bake for 20-25 minutes until cooked when tested. Cool cakes in pan for 5 minutes, before turning onto a wire rack to cool completely.

Caramel icing

7.Heat brown sugar and butter in a small saucepan on low, stirring until sugar dissolves.

8.Blend in milk, stirring 2 minutes. Whisk in icing- sugar mixture until smooth.

9.Cool slightly before drizzling over cooled cakes.

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Marble cakes with caramel icing

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