How to Cook Yummy Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake)

Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake).

You can cook Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake) using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake)

1. It's 250 g of soft butter.
2. You need 300 g of sugar.
3. It's 8 of eggs (7 eggs if large).
4. Prepare 1 pinch of salt.
5. Prepare 2 Tbsp of rum or sour cream.
6. Prepare 1/2 of vanilla bean pod, seeds scraped out (optional).
7. You need 1 Tbsp of lemon zest (from about 1/2 lemon).
8. You need 375 g of cake flour (or 300 g flour + 75 g starch).
9. It's 8 g of baking powder.
10. You need 3 Tbsp of cocoa powder.
11. It's 1/2 tsp of cinnamon (optional).
12. Prepare of Powdered sugar to dust.
13. You need 1 of round bundt/ring cake form (I used a 26 cm round ring cake form).

Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake) instructions

1. Oil and dust with flour your cake form. Preheat oven to 180°C..
2. 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..
3. Mix in the salt, rum or sour cream, vanilla and lemon zest..
4. Sieve in a third of the flour and mix well. Mix the rest of the flour with the baking powder and gradually mix in..
5. 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..
6. With a fork, work the two batters together with spiral motions. Even out the top so it's level..
7. 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..
8. Let the cake cool briefly then remove onto a cake rack. Let cool completely..
9. Dust with powdered sugar. Slice and serve with coffee or tea..

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