Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, marmorkuchen (german marble cake). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, 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. Step By Step Photos and Instructions German Marble Cake Recipe. The German Marmorkuchen Marble cake is one of these typical cakes that are a "must have" for the traditional "coffee and cake" on Sunday afternoon.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook marmorkuchen (german marble cake) using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake):

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

This Chocolate and Vanilla Marble cake is made with egg-weight-dough. You can increase/decrease the cake size depending on your needs or the size of your baking pan (use a Bundt or loaf pan). This Marmorkuchen, a German marble cake, is a great companion to coffee to enjoy Germay's "fourth-meal." Subtle aromas of warming, spiced Austrian STROH rum, real vanilla and lemon zest are paired with the richness of cocoa and a dark chocolate glaze (find out where STROH is available in. This is the classical German marbled cake.

Steps to make Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake):

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.

I made my first Marmorkuchen when I was a exchange student in Germany. The technique of this cake is to create a marble effect with two different colors of cake batters together. Molasses, spices, raisins, currants, and even coffee was originally used to create the darker color. 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!

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