Marble Pound Cake

My daughter has started going to school... she wants something or the other in her snack box.. She once asked me to pack cake for.. So I baked a basic pound cake with twist of cocoa mix:

Ingredients:

Flour – 100 gms

Butter – 100 gms

Sugar – 100 gms

Baking Powder – 1 tsp

Eggs – 2

Vanilla essence – 1 tsp

Milk – ½ cup

Cocoa powder – 1 tbsp

Hot Water – 1 tbsp

Method:

1.  Pre-heat oven at 180 degrees for 10 mins. Grease 8’ tin with butter & dust with flour
2. Seive Flour & Baking powder twice & keep aside
3. Cream butter & sugar till it is light & fluffy
4. Separately beat the Eggs & Vanilla Essence till it is fluffy
5. Mix the Eggs with Butter & Sugar mix.
6. Add Flour to the batter & fold it in. Add Milk if the batter is too tight
7. Separately mix hot water & cocoa powder
8. In the cake tin, add half of the cake mix, pour in half of the cocoa mix & swirl it with a fork.
9. Add the next half of the cake mix, pour in the balance cocoa mix & swirl with fork. 
10. Bake it for 30 to 45 mins at 180 deg till the toothpick comes out clean

 Tips:

• You can skip the cocoa powder step if you do not want it.
• You need to beat eggs with vanilla essence to remove that eggy smell