As a young mother it was, and still is, tradition to make a special dessert for Sunday dinner one of our favorites was cake, in particular any kind of chocolate cake. One day I decided to try making a marble cake and it soon became my son Robert’s favorite and after over baking it one time fondly became “Crummy Cake”.
Marble Cake
2/3 cup Butter
3/4 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
3 cups flour
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups milk
1/4 cup cocoa powder
Cream butter and sugar together until light. Add eggs and vanilla, beat until fluffy. Sift dry ingredients together and add alternately with milk. Pour all but about 1 1/2 cups of batter into a greased and floured 9” X 13” baking dish. Add enough water to the 1/4 cup of cocoa powder to make a medium paste (about the same consistency of the batter). Stir into the remaining batter. Using a large spoon, drop heaping spoonful’s of the chocolate batter evenly on top the batter in the pan. Using a rubber spatula weave and swirl the chocolate through the batter (don’t over swirl or you will have a big chocolate patch in the middle). Bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes. Cool. Frost cake with chocolate butter cream frosting.
Butter Cream Frosting
