Smarties Marble Loaf Cake
Servings 10 Slices
Ingredients
Cake
- 200 g Butter
- 200 g Caster Sugar
- 300 g Self-Raising Flour
- 4 Eggs
- 2 tbsp Cocoa Powder
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 2 tbsp Whole Milk
Buttercream
- 200 g Butter
- 400 g Icing Sugar
- 2 tbsp Cocoa Powder
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- Smarties
- Smarties Buttons Milk and White
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat the oven to 170°C/gas mark 3. Line a 30cm loaf tin with baking paper
- Beat together the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy then add in the eggs until fully incorporated.
- Gently fold in the flour then place separate the mix into a two bowls. In one bowl add the vanilla extract and mix then in the other bowl add the cocoa powder and mix.
- Spoon in a of the vanilla batter into the lined tin and spread out evenly. Pour ½ of the chocolate mixture on top in a swirling motion then cover with the remaining vanilla mixture. then use a metal skewer to swirl the chocolate through the vanilla to create the marbled effect
- Bake for 45–50 minutes, until a metal skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
Buttercream
- Beat the butter until pale and fluffy then sieve in the icing sugar a bit at a time until fully incorporated.
- Half the buttercream once it is fully incorporated, in one half add the cocoa powder and in the other half add the vanilla. Mix until fully incorporated.*
- Add buttercreams to piping bags with star nozzles and pipe one line of chocolate buttercream then a line of vanilla buttercream until the whole cake is decorated.
- Add the smarties and smarties buttons until your happy then enjoy.
Notes
*If your buttercreams are too stiff then add some whole milk until you get a soft but pliable buttercream.