Marbled Chocolate Cake
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  Ingredients:

2½ oz butter
8 oz castor sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
8 oz plain flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
about 1/4 pint milk
3 egg whites
1 oz plain chocolate
2 tablespoons hot water
1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

Pre-heat oven to 350°F Mark 3
   
  Making:
     
  1. Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add vanilla.
  2.
 		 Sift flour, baking powder and salt together, and add to the creamed mixture alternately with the milk. Beat well with each addition. Beat egg whites stiffly and fold into the mixture.
  3. Mix melted chocolate with water and bicarbonate of soda. Add this mixture to half the cake mixture.
  4.
 		 Alternate light and dark mixtures by spoonfuls in a greased and lined tin about 9½ by 5 by 3 inches. Then bake for 40-45 minutes.
  5. When cold, ice with Creamy Chocolate Icing (See Below).
   
 
   
  Creamy Chocolate Icing:
   
  (Quantity for top and sides of 8 inch cake or tops of two 8-9 inch sandwich cakes)
   
  Ingredients:
    2 oz plain chocolate
  1/4 pint milk
  12 oz castor sugar
  2 egg yolks
  1 tablespoon butter
  1 teaspoon vanilla essence
  Making of Creamy Chocolate Icing:
  1. Put chocolate and milk into a pan and stir over low heat until chocolate has melted.
  2.
 		 Mix sugar with beaten egg yolks, add to the chocolate milk mixture and cook gently for 10 minutes, stirring frequently.
  3. Add butter and vanilla, and leave until lukewarm. Then beat until thick enough to spread.
   
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