Marble cake

Name: Marble cake
Ingredients: 250 g plain flour; 125 g sugar; 1 egg; 2 tsp baking powder; 2 tbsp cocoa powder; 100 g butter, softened; 1 tsp lemon juice; 2 tsp cardamom extract; about 1½–2 dl milk

From: Vallý
Oven: 180 °C180 °C (350 °F)

Ingredients

250 g plain flour9 oz plain flour
125 g sugar4½ oz sugar
1 egg
2 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp cocoa powder
100 g butter, softened3½ oz butter, softened
1 tsp lemon juice
2 tsp cardamom extract (Cardamom extract is a common Icelandic baking flavouring; if you can't find it, use 1 tsp ground cardamom.)
about 1½–2 dl milkabout ⅔–¾ cup milk

Method

Heat the oven to 180°C. Grease a loaf tin or a ring tin.Heat the oven to 350 °F. Grease a loaf tin or a ring tin.
Beat the softened butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg, then the lemon juice and cardamom extract.
Sift in the flour and baking powder and mix. Add milk (about 1½–2 dl) until the batter is soft and drops from the spoon.Sift in the flour and baking powder and mix. Add milk (about ⅔–¾ cup) until the batter is soft and drops from the spoon.
Take out about a third of the batter and stir the cocoa into it (with a little more milk if needed).
Spoon the plain and chocolate batters into the tin in turns, then draw a fork through to make a marbled pattern.
Bake at 180°C for 50–60 minutes, until a skewer pushed into the cake comes out clean.Bake at 350 °F for 50–60 minutes, until a skewer pushed into the cake comes out clean.

As she wrote it

Marmarakaka

(Vallý)

250gr. hveiti — 125gr. sykur — 1 egg 2tsk. lytiduft — 2 msk. kakó 100gr. smjör — 1tsk. sítr. safi 2 tsk. kardim. dropar.

180°c 50-60 min.