Chocolate and Vanilla Marble Cupcakes

This week our friend is campaigning to be elected VP of Activities for the Union next year, and you know what that means…CAMPAIGN CUPCAKES! Nothing better than some baked goods to coerce the student population into voting. We decided to make marble cupcakes because they look so damn good! In the end they couldn't actually use the cakes because they'd already gone over budget so we just randomly distributed them to our friends instead...

Bear in mind for this recipe we made nearly 60 cupcakes so if you don’t want to make quite as many then half the quantities.

Ingredients

6 eggs

400g of self-raising flour

400g of caster sugar

400g of butter

Splash of milk

1 tsp of baking powder

Few drops vanilla essence

3 tsps of cocoa powder

Mix all the ingredients except for the vanilla essence and cocoa powder into a large mixing bowl. When thoroughly mixed split the mixture in half into two bowls. To one add a few drops of vanilla essence and to the other 3 tsps of cocoa powder.

Using a small teaspoon fill the cupcake cases with alternate spoons of mixture, being careful not to mix them. When the cases are ¾ full, pop them into an oven preheated to 180⁰C/Gas Mark 5 for 15 minutes or until springy to the touch.

Leave to cool on a wire rack and then decorate! Because we had so many and they were for the campaign we piped a small swirl of icing on each, topped with a chocolate chip and writing icing saying ‘V.A’ which means VOTE FOR AHSAN!

If I was making these for a general occasion I would make two-tone butter icing where you fill a piping bag with two different colours and it comes out looking very pretty. This marble recipe also works really well in a loaf cake or just a big old normal one if you can be bothered.