Marble Cake
Make either of the white cake mixtures, take out about half a cupful and color it light red with strawberry or currant syrup.
Butter a cake mould, flour it, and shake out the surplus flour, leaving the mould thinly coated. Drop lumps of cake batter in the mould with a teaspoon, paint them over with a knife dipped in the red batter, but without flattening or smoothing or running the lumps together. Drop more spoonfuls of the cake mixture in the hollows and paint them over with the knife blade dipped in red as before, and so fill the mould to within an inch of the top. There will be fine waving lines of pink through the cake when cut. Chocolate and white can be used in the same way. The snow cake mixture is apt to be too soft to keep form by spoonfuls, unless quite cold. "Luck" is the poorest possible ingredient in cake making. The same cause will always produce the same effect. The exact proportions that will make a splendid cake one time will make the same every time if put together the same way. The question is only to find the right proportions.