Marble Cake - Marmorkage
SweetSourSavory
- Serves
- 1 loaf
The ultimate marble cake
Ingredients
- 250 gram butter
- 250 gram sugar
- 4 piece eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla paste or the seed from 1 vanilla bean pod
- 250 gram all-purpose flour
- 1.5 teaspoon baking powder
- 50 milliliter milk
- 2.5 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tablespoon cold espresso or another strong coffee
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Directions
- Step 1
Preheat the oven for 355℉ (180℃).
- Step 2
Butter a 4¾x9” (12x23 cm) pan. Line the bottom with some parchment paper.
- Step 3
In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugars until very light and fluffy, mix in the vanilla paste. Add the eggs one at a time, and mix just until fully incorporated.
- Step 4
Sift flour and baking powder in a bowl.
- Step 5
Fold in alternately dry ingredients and milk.
- Step 6
Pour ⅔ of the batter into the prepared pan. Mix in cocoa and coffee in the last third of the batter, and pour it on top of the white in the pan. Using a knife “cut” in a zig-zag and up’n down motion down the pan to create a marbled effect.
- Step 7
Bake the cake for 45-55 minutes until a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean. Turn out onto a cooling rack and leave to cool.