The marble cake is thought to have made its way to America with German immigrants before the Civil War. Originally cakes were marbled with molasses and spices, but Aunt Babette’s Cook Book: Foreign and Domestic Receipts for the Household, published in 1889, includes a recipe for marble cake with chocolate marbling. Marble cake remained popular throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Today the most common version of marble cake is made using chocolate and vanilla flavored batters.
Recipe Servings: 10
Prep Time
15 minutes
Cook Time
55 minutes
Total Time
1 hour 10 minutes
Vegetarian
Vegan
Gluten Free
Dairy Free
Kosher
Halal
Ingredients
- Shortening, as needed to grease pan
- 1¼ cups cake flour
- ½ cup or 1 package (3.4 oz) instant vanilla pudding mix
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 large eggs, at room temperature
- ¾ cup milk, at room temperature
- ⅓ cup baking cocoa
- ⅓ cup very hot water
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease an 8- or 9-inch loaf pan with shortening.
- Sift together the flour, pudding mix, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl.
- Whip together the butter, sugar, and eggs in a large bowl using an electric mixer for a few minutes until the mixture turns light yellow.
- Beat in half of the milk and half of the sifted flour mixture, then beat in the remaining milk and flour mixture. Whip until the batter is smooth and creamy.
- Whisk together the baking cocoa and hot water in a small bowl until smooth.
- Pour a little less than half of the cake batter into a medium bowl and whisk in the baking cocoa/water mixture until fully combined and smooth. This is the chocolate marbling batter and the remaining cake batter will be the light marbling.
- Pour the light and dark cake batters into the pan. Start at one end of the pan and swirl a butter knife through the batter making rounded zig-zags from one side of the pan to the other all the way to the other end of the pan.
- Bake the cake for 45–55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Remove the cake from the oven and let it cool in the pan on a wire rack for 10–15 minutes before turning the cake out of the pan to cool completely on the rack.
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