Marble butter cake recipe

Ingredients:
250 g good quality butter
¼ teaspoon salt
80 g castor sugar
1 heaped tablespoon condensed milk
1 teaspoon vanilla essence or 1 vanilla pod, slit and insides scraped
4 large egg yolks
2 tablespoons evaporated milk or UHT milk
1 tablespoon brandy (optional)
200g plain flour, sifted
1 teaspoon baking powder, sifted
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda, sifted
4 large egg whites
80g castor sugar
1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar
9” round cake pan, lined & greased
1 tablespoon cocoa powder + 1 tablespoon oil or melted butter

Method:

1. Grease and line the cake pan, Preheat oven to 170*C.
2. Combine plain flour, baking power and bicarbonate of soda and keep aside.
2. Using an electric beater fitted with a paddle attachment, whip butter, sugar and salt until creamy.
3. Beat in egg yolks one at a time, beating well after each addition.
4. Fold in milk, vanilla essence (or contents of a vanilla pod) and brandy.
5. In another clean bowl, fitted with a balloon whisk, whisk egg whites until foamy, gradually beating in sugar and cream of tartar, until whites are stiff.
6. Fold beaten whites into cake batter alternating with the flour mixture.
7. In a small bowl, combine sifted cocoa powder and oil. Mix in 4-5-heaped tablespoons of cake batter and set aside.