Marble Cake

Marble cake is a cake with a "marbled" appearance which is achieved by lightly mixing the light and dark batter with the use of a fork.  The texture of this cake is spongy and moist.  It is easy to make and the following are the step-by-step method:

Ingredients:

350 g butter

350 g sugar

350 g flour

1 packet baking powder

7 eggs

20 g cocoa powder

1 egg

5 cl rum

icing sugar

Method:

Sift flour together with baking powder in a bowl.

Whisk the softened butter with sugar until creamy.  Once creamy, fold in 2 tbsp flour and mix  well.  Then, add in 1 egg and mix well.  Repeat this procedure until all 7 eggs and flour are used up.  Divide mixture into two parts (2/3 and 1/3).

Butter and flour a cake tin (28 cm ø) with funnel (Frankfurterkranz cake form will do the job well) or a normal 26 cm ø cake tin and add in 2/3 of the batter.

Mix the cocoa powder, rum and egg together and fold into the 1/3 batter.  Mix well.  Add on top of the light batter in cake form.  With a fork, run a continuous circle movement through both dough mixture to create a marble effect.  Level the surface with a tablespoon.

Bake in a pre-heated fan oven (Umluft:  170ºC) for about 40 minutes.  Pierce cake with a satay stick to check whether cake is done.  If the stick turns out sticky, bake cake for a further 5 minutes.
After baking, leave cake in cake form for about 5-10 minutes before turning it out on a wire gitter.  Cool cake completely.

Before serving, sprinkle cake with powdered sugar or if preferred, cover with hard icing.  

Bon Appetit!