Carly's Marble Engagement Cake

By Kathy C.

Found this recipe in Kindle Book by Sandra D. Bricker (Always the Designer, Never the Bride)

Ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 Tbsp baking powder
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 1 cup whole milk (not too cold)
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 sticks softened, unsalted butter
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate

Details

Adapted from amazon.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix flour, baking powder, and salt.
In a separate bowl, mix milk and vanilla.

In large mixing bowl, beat softened butter until creamy.
Add sugar and beat until fluffy.
Fold in eggs and continue to beat.
Add dry ingredients slowly, alternating with the milk mixture.

Transfer 2 cups of the batter to a small bowl and set aside.
Scrape the remaining batter into prepared cake pans.

Stir melted chocolate into the batter that was set aside.
Drop the chocolate batter over the plain batter in dollops and swirl with a butter knife.

Bake in the lower part of the oven for 40 minutes.

Let cakes cool in their pans for 15-20 minutes.
Remove from pans and transfer to cooling rack for at least an hour.