Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, marmorkuchen (german marble cake). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. 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 recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have marmorkuchen (german marble cake) using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake):
- Get 250 g soft butter
- Get 300 g sugar
- Make ready 8 eggs (7 eggs if large)
- Prepare 1 pinch salt
- Take 2 Tbsp rum or sour cream
- Make ready 1/2 vanilla bean pod, seeds scraped out (optional)
- Make ready 1 Tbsp lemon zest (from about 1/2 lemon)
- Prepare 375 g cake flour (or 300 g flour + 75 g starch)
- Take 8 g baking powder
- Prepare 3 Tbsp cocoa powder
- Get 1/2 tsp cinnamon (optional)
- Make ready Powdered sugar to dust
- Make ready 1 round bundt/ring cake form (I used a 26 cm round ring cake form)
Molasses, spices, raisins, currants, and even coffee was originally used to create the darker color. 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.
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.
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. Actually, German marble cake tends to be drier than the American version. 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.
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