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🍰 Classic Marble Cake After Grandma Frieda
525 kcal · 90 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 200 g butter, softened
- 160 g sugar
- 1 packet bourbon vanilla sugar
- 1 pinch lemon zest
- 2 tbsp rum
- 6 egg yolks
- 6 egg whites
- 1 pinch salt
- 120 g sugar
- 280 g wheat flour Type 405
- 0.5 packet baking powder
- 100 ml milk, lukewarm
- 20 g cocoa powder, unsweetened (classic dark)
- powdered sugar (or cocoa fat glaze)
- butter (and flour for the pan)
Instructions
- 1. Use a Bundt cake pan with a diameter of 22 centimeters.
- 2. Beat the soft butter with the sugar, vanilla sugar, lemon zest, and rum until creamy.
- 3. Separate the eggs.
- 4. Stir the egg yolks one by one into the butter-sugar mixture.
- 5. Whip the six egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff.
- 6. Add the remaining 120 grams of sugar to the egg whites and continue whipping until a firm meringue forms.
- 7. Weigh the flour and mix it with the baking powder.
- 8. Warm the milk slightly.
- 9. Add alternating portions of flour, lukewarm milk, and egg white foam to the butter-yolk mixture in three to four steps.
- 10. Gently fold everything together using a wooden spoon.
- 11. Never use an electric mixer.
- 12. Grease the pan generously with butter.
- 13. Dust the pan with flour.
- 14. Fill about half of the batter into the prepared pan.
- 15. Sift the cocoa powder directly into the remaining mass to avoid lumps.
- 16. Darken the remaining batter with the cocoa powder.
- 17. Pour the dark batter over the light batter in the pan.
- 18. Swirl through the batter with a fork to create the marble pattern.
- 19. Hold the fork slightly angled for a perfect result.
- 20. Bake the cake in the preheated oven at 150 to 160 degrees Celsius convection (or 180 degrees Celsius top and bottom heat) for about 60 minutes.
- 21. Ensure the cake does not become too dark so it does not dry out.
- 22. Perform the skewer test to check for doneness.
- 23. Let the cake cool slightly in the pan.
- 24. Turn the cake out onto a wire rack.
- 25. Dust the cake with powdered sugar or cover it with a chocolate fat glaze.
- 26. Serve the cake with whipped cream or without.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 525
- Protein: 7 g · Fett/Fat: 26 g · Carbs: 66 g