Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, marmorkuchen (german marble cake). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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.
Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake) is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake) is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook marmorkuchen (german marble cake) using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake):
- Take 250 g soft butter
- Prepare 300 g sugar
- Make ready 8 eggs (7 eggs if large)
- Take 1 pinch salt
- Prepare 2 Tbsp rum or sour cream
- Make ready 1/2 vanilla bean pod, seeds scraped out (optional)
- Prepare 1 Tbsp lemon zest (from about 1/2 lemon)
- Prepare 375 g cake flour (or 300 g flour + 75 g starch)
- Prepare 8 g baking powder
- Get 3 Tbsp cocoa powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp cinnamon (optional)
- Get Powdered sugar to dust
- Make ready 1 round bundt/ring cake form (I used a 26 cm round ring cake form)
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. Hello Everybody It was a last minute decision today to bake a cake. So I have decided to show you how I bake my family German favorite Cake, the. Actually, German marble cake tends to be drier than the American version.
Instructions 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.
But since I prefer my cakes moister, I just add a package of instant vanilla pudding to the flour! I have been looking for this recipe for a LONG long time! Every time i would go visit family in Germany my aunt always made this. This is the classical German marbled cake. There are several recipes for marbled cakes posted here on food.com but none is the authentic one, somewhat similar to a pound cake.
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