Marble Cake

Whether it be pound cake, sponge cake, or any other type of cake it seems we go to school to learn all the techniques in order to master the basics, to that end marble cake is as basic as it gets you might say its simply black and white.

While marble cake may be simple enough play with it and create all kinds of interesting designs, in this case of this cake I am baking today I am going for a horse shoe created simply by weighting the top and filling down which forces the bottom two layers up the side of the form though I should say if you intend on baking yours as I did here places the filled cake tin on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper or foil for easy clean up.

Depending on the type of form you use, you may have batter left over; you can make one more cake or cup cakes if you wish

Shopping List

Unsalted butter

Baker’s sugar

Eggs

Sour cream

Cream cheese

Whole milk

Vanilla extract and/or vanilla paste

Chocolate

Coco

Coffee

Unbleached AP flour

Baking powder

Baking soda

Salt

My Mad Method

Ready to eat!

Cream together 225g room temperature butter, and 475g sugar

Add 4 eggs, one at a time, when you add the last egg add 2 tsp vanilla

Add 350g sour cream, and 100g cream cheese

Sift together 550g flour, 1/2 TBS baking powder, and 1/2 ts salt, add in batches

 When blended divide into thirds

 
 Melt chocolate over a water bath, add 2ts each; coco powder, coffee, and milk

Add the melted chocolate to one third of the batter

Fill about 2cm vanilla batter to the bottom of a well greased cake form

Add 2cm chocolate batter

Top off with 2cm vanilla batter, you can run a knife through it to create marble affect or pound the cake form on counter to create affect

I have purposely over filled my form, but you should have at least 2cm of rim left when you have filled your form In an 8cm deep cake form

  

When the cake is dune allow it to rest 30 minutes or so then remove the cake from its form and allow it to cool thoroughly on a wire wrack