A flavourful, moist marble cake that pairs perfectly with coffee.
Prep Time20minutes
Cook Time50minutes
AuthorThe Kitchen Maus
Ingredients
1/2cupone stick of room temperature butter
1/2cupof sugar
1 1/2teaspoonsof vanilla sugar
Pinchof salt
2room temperature eggs
1cupof all purpose flour
1 1/2level teaspoons of baking powder
1tablespoonof milk
2teaspoonsof rumoptional but adds great flavour, especially if it’s overproof
1/8cupof vanilla yogurt
Chocolate Part
2ouncesof bittersweet or semisweet chocolatemelted
1tablespoonof milk
1tablespoonof vanilla sugaror just sugar
Glaze (optional)
1/2cupof powdered sugar
1/2teaspoonof vanilla extract
2– 3 teaspoons of water
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 8x4 glass loaf pan with butter wrapper or cooking spray. Mix together sugar, vanilla sugar and salt in a small bowl. Whisk together flour and baking powder in separate bowl. Coarsely chop chocolate, melt and set aside to cool down.
Cream butter with electric mixer on high until soft. Gradually add sugar mixture until smooth. Next, add eggs, one at a time, mixing each egg for 30 seconds on medium setting. Alternate adding the flour mixture with the wet ingredients on medium until batter is smooth.
Put 1/3 of the batter in the glass loaf pan. Set aside another 1/3 of the batter. Fold melted chocolate, milk and sugar into the remaining batter in the mixing bowl. Pour chocolate batter on top of vanilla batter in pan. Add the remaining vanilla batter on top. Lastly, swirl fork or knife through the batter to create marbling pattern.
Bake for 45 - 50 minutes or until inserted toothpick comes out clean. Let it cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes before removing it from the pan.
Optional Glaze
Mix powdered sugar, vanilla extract and water until glaze is thick but will still pour off the spoon. Drizzle over cooled cake and let the glaze set/hardened.
Recipe Notes
Best when eaten within the first 3 - 4 days. Having all ingredients at room temperature makes for the best texture but butter is the only one that's mandatory.