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The Best Marble Cake Recipe

If you're looking for a no-fail brilliant marble cake, look no further than this recipe from Cakes & Pastries.
Course: Breakfast, Desserts
Dietary: Nut Free, Refined Sugar Free
Make This for: Sweet Cravings
Servings: 1 loaf cake

Ingredients

Vanilla Cake Mix

  • 2 eggs
  • 4 egg yolks
  • 215 grams caster sugar
  • 115 grams whipping cream
  • 50 grams sunflower oil
  • 170 grams flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder

Chocolate Marble Mix  

  • 1 egg
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 125 grams caster sugar
  • 70 grams whipping cream
  • 35 grams sunflower oil
  • 85 grams flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • 20 grams cocoa

Instructions

  • To make the vanilla cake mix: whisk the eggs, egg yolks and sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer. Add the cream and oil. Sieve the flour and baking powder into a bowl and mix. Add to the wet ingredients and mix together. Pour batter into a piping bag.
  • To make the chocolate marble mix: whisk the eggs, egg yolks and sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer. Add the cream and oil. Sieve the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder into a bowl and mix. Add to the wet ingredients and mix together. Pour batter into another piping bag.
  • Preheat the oven to 160C. Line a 30x8x8cm loaf tin with baking paper. Pipe about 230g of the vanilla mixture into the bottom of the pan. Then add 200g of the chocolate marble mix in the centre, pipe vanilla on top and then chocolate. Alternate until you have no more batter, making sure to finish with the vanilla mix.
  • Bake for 1 hour, until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool before removing from the cake tin.