Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, marmorkuchen (german marble cake). It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake) is something which I have loved my entire life.
As a child, Marmorkuchen , made from this German Marble Cake Recipe, was a staple in our home. Chocolate and Vanilla swirled into a bundt (or Gugelhopf) pan. Serve Your Marmorkuchen in German Style.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook marmorkuchen (german marble cake) using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake):
- Get 250 g soft butter
- Prepare 300 g sugar
- Get 8 eggs (7 eggs if large)
- Prepare 1 pinch salt
- Prepare 2 Tbsp rum or sour cream
- Prepare 1/2 vanilla bean pod, seeds scraped out (optional)
- Make ready 1 Tbsp lemon zest (from about 1/2 lemon)
- Take 375 g cake flour (or 300 g flour + 75 g starch)
- Make ready 8 g baking powder
- Get 3 Tbsp cocoa powder
- Get 1/2 tsp cinnamon (optional)
- Take Powdered sugar to dust
- Take 1 round bundt/ring cake form (I used a 26 cm round ring cake form)
The technique of this cake is to create a marble effect with two different colors of cake batters together. Molasses, spices, raisins, currants, and even coffee was originally used to create the darker color. 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. This is the classical German marbled cake.
Steps to make Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake):
- Oil and dust with flour your cake form. Preheat oven to 180°C.
- 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.
- Mix in the salt, rum or sour cream, vanilla and lemon zest.
- Sieve in a third of the flour and mix well. Mix the rest of the flour with the baking powder and gradually mix in.
- 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.
- With a fork, work the two batters together with spiral motions. Even out the top so it's level.
- 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.
- Let the cake cool briefly then remove onto a cake rack. Let cool completely.
- Dust with powdered sugar. Slice and serve with coffee or tea.
There are several recipes for marbled cakes posted here on food.com but none is the authentic one, somewhat similar to a pound 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. Actually, German marble cake tends to be drier than the American version.
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