Marble cake :
2 cups flour.
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essences.
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
Method:
Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
Place flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, butter or margarine, eggs, vanilla, and milk into mixing bowl.
Beat slowly to moisten, then beat with an electric mixer at medium speed for about 2 minutes until smooth.
Reserve 3/4 cup batter; pour the remainder into pan.
Stir cocoa into the 3/4 cup reserved batter.
Drop by spoonfuls over top of white batter.
Using a knife, swirl the cocoa batter into the white batter to incorporate it in a marble effect.
Bake in preheated oven for 30 to 35 minutes.
Icing Ingredients:
150g butter,
280g icing sugar,
few drops vanilla essence,
2,5ml milk,
45ml cocoa.
Cream the butter,sugar and vanilla essence together,then slowly beat in the milk and cocoa.
Till smooth and creamy.
To assemble gravity cake:
Ice the cake with icing.
Leave some of the icing aside to create the gravity effect.
Break the kit-kat chocolate and stick around the cake, making sure you leave a space for the sweets to fall.
Poke a skewer in the centre of the cake.
Pipe icing around the skewer to resemble a cone.
Place sweets onto the icing to form the gravity effect.
Once sweets have dried on the icing place the candy box on the top of the skewer.
Scatter the remaining sweets on the cake.
Stick candy onto the icing by pressing it onto the space that you left without the kit kat to create a spill.
Prepared, tried and tested by: Reshika Singh