Marble Cake. A marble cake is a cake with a streaked or mottled appearance (like marble) achieved by very lightly blending light and dark batter. It can be a mixture of vanilla and chocolate cake. A marble cake is butter cake with mottled with chocolate or with streaks of chocolate.

My husband's favorite cake is Marble so I thought I could make one from scratch. Instead of the cake mix kind. I looked everywhere online and found that different sights had this same recipe. You can cook Marble Cake using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Marble Cake

1. It's 40 g of cocoa powder.
2. You need 400 g of sugar; split in two.
3. You need 120 ml of water.
4. Prepare 115 g of culinary chocolate; medium pieces.
5. Prepare 240 ml of buttermilk.
6. Prepare 4 of eggs.
7. Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla essence.
8. Prepare 390 g of all purpose flour.
9. It's 1 tsp of baking powder.
10. Prepare 1 tsp of baking soda.
11. It's 1 tsp of salt.
12. Prepare 225 g of butter; softened.

Marble cake is a wonderful old-fashioned baked good, as pretty as it is delicious. The idea of marbling two different colored batters into a cake originated in nineteenth century Germany. This marble cake recipe features vanilla cake swirled with chocolate for a gorgeous marble effect. This basic marble cake is probably my favorite of all the cakes so far.

Marble Cake step by step

1. Preheat the oven to 160°c and set an oven rack in the middle position. Spray a 10-in (12-cup) Bundt pan generously with nonstick cooking spray with flour.
2. In a small saucepan, combine the cocoa powder, 200g of the sugar, and the water. Bring to a simmer over high heat, whisking until smooth. Off the heat, immediately add the chocolate; whisk until the chocolate is melted and the mixture is smooth. Set aside.
3. In a medium bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, eggs, and vanilla. Set aside. (Note that the mixture will start to look curdled as it sits; that's okay.).
4. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment or beaters, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and remaining of sugar. Beat on low speed for 30 seconds to combine. Add the softened butter and half of the buttermilk mixture and mix on low speed until moistened but still a little crumbly, about 1 minute. With the mixer running on low, gradually add the remaining buttermilk mixture until incorporated, then increase the speed to medium and mix for three mi.
5. Transfer about 1/3 of the batter to a medium bowl. Add the chocolate mixture and whisk until smooth..
6. Spoon half of the remaining vanilla batter into the prepared Bundt pan. Pour the chocolate batter over top. Finish by spooning the remaining vanilla batter over the chocolate (don't worry about covering the chocolate layer completely). Using a butter knife, swirl the batters together with a figure-eight motion, going three times around the pan. It may not look like the batters are swirled; that's okay. It's important not to over-swirl..
7. Bake for 60 to 70 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean..

On a separate note, I always thought these were called marbled cake layers. I initially titled this post marbled layer cake recipe. Make your marble cake using a purchased cake mix. You can bake a round layered cake or a large single layered cake. Then frost the moist marble cake with your favorite frosting or ganache.