I’ve wanted to make a marble cake for a while. They’re relatively easy to make, but very impressive to look at.

This cake in particular is baked in a bundt tin and has ganache style icing, so it comes out looking fantastic and tasting luxurious. This would be a great cake to make for a special event. I also appreciate how it looks like an enormous chocolate donut.

It lasts for ages. I kept it in an airtight tin and it was perfectly soft and tasty four days later.

Did I mention it also has rum in it?

Recipe adapted from Annie Bell’s Baking Bible

• 300g/11oz butter
• 300g/110z golden caster sugar
• 6 medium eggs
• 150ml/0.25 pint milk
• 280g/10oz self raising flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1tsp vanilla extract
• 100g/4oz dark chocolate, chopped or in chips
• 25g/1oz cocoa powder
• 1tbsp dark rum
• icing suagr

For the drizzle

• 100g/4oz milk chocolate
• 2tbsp milk

1. Heat oven to 190c/170cfan/gas5. Grease a 25cm bundt ring mould with butter then dust with flour. Cream together the butter and sugar in a  food processor. Beat in the eggs one at a time and then add the milk. Don’t worry if the mixture curdles at this stage; it will cream again in the next stage.

2. Divide the mixture between two bowls, you can weigh if you want to be accurate. Sift together the flour and baking powder. Add 150g of flour to one bowl and fold in carefully with the vanilla, then fold in the chocolate chips. Fold in the remaining flour and cocoa into the other bowl, along with the rum.

3. Spoon the cocoa mixture into the base of the mould, creating a slight trough then smooth the vanilla mixture on top. Bake for 50 mins until risen and set. Run a knife around the inner and outer edges and leave to cool in the tin for about 30 mins. Turn out and leave to cool completely.

4. To make the drizzle, melt the chocolate and butter over a pan of simmering water, stirring until smooth. Add the milk and whisk until glossy.

5. Spoon the mix over the cake, letting it run down the sides. Leave to set for a few hours. This cake will be good for several days. It will crumbly on the first day, but will firm up as time goes on.