Marble cake recipe – a simple cake with no frosting needed, perfect for kids and adults alike.
I grew up eating marble cake. It’s almost a comfort food for me – warm, spongy marble cake fresh out of the oven served with cold milk or “Boost” when I get back from school. Ah, bliss. While a good chocolate cake is always on top of my favourite cakes list, marble cake was a very close second as a child.
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 baking a cake was in the plans, she would take out her cream pot and churn it make soft cloudy butter. I don’t think we ever bought butter during those days. Any butter that was in the fridge for a few days was made into golden ghee.
When I started college, a family friend opened up a bakery called Johns and Pauls. They sold the best marble cake in Kottayam at the time. Since they opened shop, I don’t think we’ve made this cake 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
Ingredients
- 2 cups plain flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- A pinch of salt omit if using salted butter
- 1 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 100 gm unsalted butter softened to room temperature
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup milk
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180C / 350F
- Grease a cake tin of choice with some butter. I used my silicone bundt pan which needs no greasing.
- Place the flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla essence and milk in a bowl.
- Beat slowly with a whisk to moisten, then beat with an electric mixer (or vigorously by hand) at medium speed for about two minutes until the batter is smooth.
- Reserve three-fourth cup batter and pour the remainder into the cake pan.
- 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.
- Drop the chocolate batter by the spoonfuls on top of the white batter.
- Using a knife, swirl the cocoa batter into the white batter to give it a marbled effect.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes in the preheated oven. Check with a skewer to see if the cake is done.
- Remove and transfer to a wire rack to cool.
- Marble cake is delicious without any frosting but a light dusting of icing sugar won’t hurt.
Notes
Few images of baking marble cake
Drop white and chocolate batters into the cake pan by the spoonfuls, alternating as you go
Swirl gently with a pointed knife or skewer
Bake until the crust is golden brown
Looks good! Will try it soon. Thanks!
Papacheong
http://home-cook-dishes-for-family.blogspot.com/
Marble Cake is favorite at our home, I always use boxed cake mix, never tried from scratch. Thanks for the Recipe Nags. Will definitely try this one.
-Mythreyi
Yum! Yum! Yum!
Wow.. the cake looks awesome. The contrasting colour swirls and the textures is evident enough to tell about the lovely taste of the cake.. More of a challenge to me but congrats, U have got it right:))
Reva
the design looks so great and yet to easy. I will have to try this. The husband doesn't like dark chocolate and i like dark chocolate.. may be this way we both get to eat what we like 😛
Its looking gr8…i'll surely try this out… 🙂
Mugdha
http://mugdha-cookingfundas.blogspot.com/
cake looks so good,..
Well, no wonder you are so amazingly creative! Nice to know you, 'neighbor'.
It sure is a small world.. John's and Paul's was one of our favorite hang outs when I was in college at CMS, Kottayam.. Never tried their marble cake though.. They had a lots of other exciting stuff on the menu..
We used to buy marble cake often from Anns.. the one at Shastri road.. near the John's and Paul's… Nowadays they have a label of ingredients and its shocking what all they have in there to increase shelf life… things like aluminium sulfate… So much for the good ol' home town bakery…
I'm curious… where ever did u go to school in Kottayam..? I studied at Marian Junior in Kalathipady..
Looks so gud n yum …love tht marble effect
Beautifully marbled, looks so moist..me want Nags!:)