Recipe: Marble Cake

This is an amazing cake.

I recommend a slice with a glass of iced coffee after you've taken your dogs for a run in your pasture, about 9:30ish. And a second slice with several scoops of Blue Bell vanilla ice cream after you've worked in the garden, while you're reading Best of the Web, about 3:30.

MARBLE CAKE
Serves 12-14

2 sticks butter, softened
2 C sugar
4 eggs, separated
2 tsp vanilla
3 C sifted cake flour
3 ¼ tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
1 C milk
1 C chocolate syrup (preferably homemade—see recipes in Basics section)

Preheat oven to 350o. Cream together butter and sugar, then add egg yolks one at a time, beating well. Add vanilla. Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt, and add alternately to creamed ingredients with milk. Beat egg whites stiff and fold into batter. Pour half the batter into a greased Angel food cake pan. Add chocolate syrup to remaining batter, mix well, and pour over batter in pan. Bake for 1 hour.