Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Marble Cake Recipe | How to Make Marble Cake, Step by Step Pictures

How to make Indian marble cake recipe - I grew up eating marble cake. It's almost a comfort food for me - warm, spongy marble cake fresh out of the oven being served with Maltova when I am back from school. Ah, bliss. While a chocolate fudge cake was always on top of my favourite cakes list, marble cake was a very close second, as a child.

marble cake recipe

Amma baked pretty often when I was a kid so I don't remember us buying this from outside during the early years of my childhood. When I started college, a family friend opened up a bakery called Johns and Pauls. They sell the best marble cake in Kottayam - hands down. Since they opened shop, I don't think we've made this at home.

For other fabulous tried and tested cake recipes check out apple streusel cake, chocolate cake in microwave (in 7 minutes), tutti frutti cake, and also this pressure cooker cake recipe.

marble cake recipe

Marble Cake Recipe

Makes an 8"bundt cake
Source: Sanjeev Kapoor's Cakes and Bakes

Ingredients:
2 cups maida or all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
A pinch of salt
1 1/4 cup powdered sugar
100gm (just under 1/2 cup) butter
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup milk (any fat content)
2 tbsp cocoa powder

How to make Marble Cake:

1. Preheat oven to 180C/ 350F

2. Grease a cake tin of choice. I used my silicon bundt pan.

3. Place the flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla essence and milk in a bowl. Beat slowly to moisten, then beat with an electric mixer (or vigorously by hand) at medium speed for about two minutes until smooth.

marble cake recipe

4. Reserve three-fourth cup batter and pour the remainder into the tin. Stir cocoa into the three-fourth cup reserved batter. You can add cocoa to more of the batter depending on which flavour you want dominating.

marble cake recipe

5. Drop by spoonfuls over top of white batter. Using a knife, swirl the cocoa batter into the white batter to give it a marble effect. Bake for thirty to forty minutes. Remove from the oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool.

marble cake recipe

Marble cake is delicious without any frosting but a light dusting of icing sugar won't hurt. 

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