Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake)
Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake)

Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, marmorkuchen (german marble cake). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Beat butter with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and creamy. Slowly add sugar and vanilla sugar while beating constantly. Sift flour and baking powder together in a separate bowl. The German Marmorkuchen Marble cake is one of these typical cakes that are a "must have" for the traditional "coffee and cake" on Sunday afternoon.

Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake) is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake) is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have marmorkuchen (german marble cake) using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake):
  1. Get 250 g soft butter
  2. Prepare 300 g sugar
  3. Take 8 eggs (7 eggs if large)
  4. Make ready 1 pinch salt
  5. Take 2 Tbsp rum or sour cream
  6. Get 1/2 vanilla bean pod, seeds scraped out (optional)
  7. Get 1 Tbsp lemon zest (from about 1/2 lemon)
  8. Prepare 375 g cake flour (or 300 g flour + 75 g starch)
  9. Get 8 g baking powder
  10. Make ready 3 Tbsp cocoa powder
  11. Take 1/2 tsp cinnamon (optional)
  12. Get Powdered sugar to dust
  13. Make ready 1 round bundt/ring cake form (I used a 26 cm round ring cake form)

You can increase/decrease the cake size depending on your needs or the size of your baking pan (use a Bundt or loaf pan). Simply add/remove one or two eggs and easily adjust your ingredients according to the new egg weight thus the name egg-weight-dough. The cake recipe was a little different back then - with spices and molasses making the "dark" portion of the cake but the concept of two colors swirled together still stands to this day! My German marble cake recipe is very easy and can be whipped up in no time.

Steps to make Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake):
  1. Oil and dust with flour your cake form. Preheat oven to 180°C.
  2. Cream the butter with 1/3 of the sugar until fluffy. Then, alternating with the eggs, add the rest of the sugar spoon by spoon mixing each time you add sugar or an egg. Beat until you have a very well beaten and fluffy batter.
  3. Mix in the salt, rum or sour cream, vanilla and lemon zest.
  4. Sieve in a third of the flour and mix well. Mix the rest of the flour with the baking powder and gradually mix in.
  5. Fill the form with half of the batter.Add 2-3 Tbsp cocoa powder to the rest of the batter along with the cinnamon if using. Pour in the dark batter on top of the light batter.
  6. With a fork, work the two batters together with spiral motions. Even out the top so it's level.
  7. Bake at 180°C for about 45-60 minutes (test by inserting a toothpick or skewer into the cake. If it comes out clean it’s done). Mine took 45 minutes in this pan.
  8. Let the cake cool briefly then remove onto a cake rack. Let cool completely.
  9. Dust with powdered sugar. Slice and serve with coffee or tea.
  10. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

The cake recipe was a little different back then - with spices and molasses making the "dark" portion of the cake but the concept of two colors swirled together still stands to this day! My German marble cake recipe is very easy and can be whipped up in no time. Known as Marmorkuchen in Germany, it is a very pretty chocolate marble bread recipe with attractive chocolate swirls giving it its marble effect. You will find this cake in all the bakers in Germany and now you can bake it too. Almost ten years after I published this post, I've published a new and improved Marmorkuchen / marble cake post, including a recipe!

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