Luscious Marble Cake

I started my foray into the world of baking with the Marble Cake. It’s a simple and easy to make dessert where you can’t go wrong unless you’ve seriously screwed up the measurement of each ingredient ;) Try it when you have the urge to eat something light and chocolaty.

You will need:

Eggs – 5
Butter – 250 gms
Maida – 250 gms
Sugar – 250 gms
Cocoa/coffee – 4 tsp (mix the powder with half of 1/4th cup of milk)
Milk 1/4th cup
Baking Powder – 2 tsp
Vanilla essence – 2 tsp


Preparation method:

1. Let the butter soften at room temperature

2. Powder the sugar

3. Separate the egg whites from the yolks

4. Cream together the butter and sugar

5. Add the egg yolks to the above mixture

6. Beat well

7. Sift the flour along with the baking powder onto a clean dry dish (sift 3 or 4 times to get rid of the air pockets)

8. Add this to the butter mixture

9. Add the vanilla essence

10. Beat the egg white till stiff and add

11. Now separate the mixture into two halves

12. To one half add the cocoa (or coffee) and mix well


Layering the cake pan:

You now have two colored mixtures - one light and creamy and the other a dark chocolaty.

Scoop the mixtures alternatively into the prepared cake pan, making inch-wide alternate stripes with the cream and dark dough so that you have a cream strip followed by a dark strip

Repeat till you cover the entire pan

When you’ve lined the pan, take a fork and lightly run it in a zig-zag motion over the mixture.