Marble Cake and end of the baking event

Have had a great time receiving all the entries for the baking for beginners event. Each one of them has made me droll over them and truly inspiring to put on those mittens and get baking. I am sure the round up would be of great help and get many like me waiting like me to actually take the plunge and begin home baking. To bring a sweet ending to the event I decided to give the Zebra Cake at Passionate about Baking a try and was amazed at the results. Firstly, I must admit that I have been just admiring the huge variety of baked dishes and the lovely pics on this blog. The Zebra Cake or Marble cake as I prefer to call it(as I didn't get the Zebra stripes so well but the taste was amazing and the cake disappeared in no time).

I made the cake with half the measure of the ingredients given in the original recipe as I wanted to make it in my rectangle cake tin and the original recipe would turn out too big for my tin.
Ingredients:
Eggs - 2
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Milk - 1/2 cup
Oil - 1/2 cup
Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
Self-raising flour - 1 cup (I used plain flour + 1 tsp baking powder)
Dark cocoa powder - 4 tbsp

I omitted the salt and used 4 tbsp of drinking chocolate instead of dark cocoa powder. With the drinking chocolate got the dark cocoa color and the taste did appeal to my daughter too.

Method:
I mixed together all the ingredients with a beater in a bowl. Divide it into two halves and to one portion add the cocoa powder and mix till well blended. Pour the cake batter in a pre-greased cake tin in alternate layers. Pour the white mixture in the centre of the tin, then pour on top of it the chocolate mixture. Alternate. The first time I made it in my excitement tried to mix it with a fork to get the stripes. Do not mix the batter it spreads on its own and turns out beautifully.
Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180 degrees for 30-35 minutes. Let stand for 5 minutes in the oven. Take out and cool on a wire rack. They would go well with tea or coffee and with a scoop of vanilla ice cream it is yummy.