Cheese and chocolate butter marble cake

Recipe: Adapt from The Nyonya Chef, Author and food consultant - Debbie Teoh

Ingredients: Cheese cake

250 g cream cheese, at room temperature

1/2 teaspoon salt

80g butter

80 g caster sugar

1 grade A egg

80 g plain flour, sifted

1/2 teaspoon baking powder, sifted

Method:

1) Preheat oven to 180º C, grease and line a 9" round cake tin.

2) Beat cream cheese, salt, butter and sugar until smooth. Add egg and beat until blended.

3) Fold in sifted flour and baking powder with a rubber spatula. Pour batter into a large piping bag and set aside . Snip the end of the bag and pipe the batter.

Ingredients - Chocolate butter cake

220 g butter

180 g caster sugar

4 grade A eggs

170 g plain flour, sifted

50 g cocoa powder, sifted

1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda, sifted

1 teaspoon baking powder, sifted

100 ml fresh milk

Method:

1) Beat butter and sugar till creamy, adding egg one at a time, making sure it's well blended after each addition.

2) Fold in sifted flour, cocoa powder, soda and baking powder alternating with fresh milk.

3) Pour 1/3 of the chocolate batter, then pipe the cheese batter on top. Alternate between chocolate cheese batter one more time then finish with the chocolate batter on top.

4) Bake in preheated oven for 45-55 minutes or until skewer inserted comes out clean.

5) Remove from oven, leave to cool awhile before slicing to serve.