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

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, marmorkuchen (german marble cake). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake) is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake) is something which I have loved my entire life.

Easy German Marble Cake (Marmorkuchen), Chocolate and Vanilla flavor. This Chocolate and Vanilla Marble cake is made with egg-weight-dough. You can increase/decrease the cake size depending on your needs or the size of your baking pan (use a Bundt or loaf pan).

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. 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. Make ready 250 g soft butter
  2. Make ready 300 g sugar
  3. Take 8 eggs (7 eggs if large)
  4. Prepare 1 pinch salt
  5. Take 2 Tbsp rum or sour cream
  6. Get 1/2 vanilla bean pod, seeds scraped out (optional)
  7. Take 1 Tbsp lemon zest (from about 1/2 lemon)
  8. Take 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. Make ready 1/2 tsp cinnamon (optional)
  12. Get Powdered sugar to dust
  13. Prepare 1 round bundt/ring cake form (I used a 26 cm round ring cake form)

Chocolate and Vanilla swirled into a bundt (or Gugelhopf) pan. Delicious, but not gooey like many cakes. It was the perfect treat for after school, or with a cup of coffee. Marble cake has withstood the test of time - is it still one of the most popular birthday cakes in Germany both for children and adults.

Instructions 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.

It is often served with whipped cream. Spoon chocolate mixture into the channel and, using a fork, draw spirals through the mixture to form a marble pattern in the cake. 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.

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