Banana Marble Cake/ Banana Cake

I was always very fond of marble cakes with chocolate swirls, so when I made the traditional Banana Cake, I thought I would give a try with the marble cake with banana in it. I don't like the cakes too sweet, so I reduced the amount of sugar and also substituted the Butter with Olive Oil. Even with no butter, these cakes came out smooth and tasty. its a perfect snack with tea. I do not know how a perfect marble cake will be, but this looks better than okay to me. Does it?

Ingredients

Sugar - 1/2 cup
Eggs - 2 nos
Bananas (mashed) - 2 nos
All purpose flour (maida) _ 2 cups
cocoa powder - 1/3 cup
Baking powder - 1.5 tsp
salt - 1/4 tsp
olive oil - 1/3 cup
milk - 1/4 cup
vanilla Essence - 1 tsp

* Preheat oven to 350 deg F
* Beat egg, sugar, oil, milk, banana and vanilla essence
* whisk together flour, baking powder and salt separately
* Mix banana mix and flour mix in portions
* Take a part of this and mix cocoa powder into it to get the chocolate cake mix.
* The swirls are created by placing white and chocolate cake batters alternately and then running your knife through the two batters.
  Pour the white original cake batter as the base layer, followed by chocolate cake mix and top it with rest of white original cake batter into a oiled baking pan
* Make swirls in it by running a tooth pick or knife through the flour batters. Make sure you do not stir.
* Bake for around 45 minutes until a tooth pick inserted come out clean.

I made this Marble cake from The traditional Banana Cake and this is how I made it.

Ingredients

Butter- 1/4 stick
sugar - 1/2 cup
Eggs - 2 Nos
Bananas (ripe) - 2 (mashed)
All purpose flour (maida) - 2 cups
Salt - 1/2 teaspoon
Butter milk - 1 cup
Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp

* Preheat oven to 350 deg F
* Beat butter and sugar till fluffy. Add eggs one at a time. Beat bananas until smooth
* Sift together flour, Baking powder and salt.
* Mix banana mix and flour mix in portions along with buttermilk and vanilla essence.
* Bake for around 45 minutes until a tooth pick inserted come out clean.

Note: If a mixture of baking powder and water doesn't foam immediately, the powder is stale.