Marble Cake Recipe
November 1st, 2009 | Baking Recipes | 31 Comments
Ever since I set eyes on Annie’s marble cake post, the image of her rich, buttery, chocolaty marble cake has made quite an impression on me. Annie is a superb baker and she once shared her aunt’s butter cake recipe with me that had me oooh and ahhh for the delicious great taste. I know her marble cake recipe will not disappoint.
I baked my marble cake with mini loaf pans because I love things small and cutesy looking. The batter makes four (4)…(get marble cake recipe after the jump)
The recipe is copied directly from House of Annie. It’s a tad long, but Annie gives detailed and useful instructions when it come to baking. If you love cakes, this marble cake recipe is a sure-fire keeper. Try it out, it’s worth it.
Ingredients:
3 sticks (12 oz) unsalted butter, softened at room temperature
2 cups sugar
6 extra-large eggs
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
3 cups (15 oz) bleached all-purpose flour
1/2 cup plain yogurt, full fat preferred
1/2 cup whole milk
100g (3.5oz) semi-sweet chocolate
1 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder (optional)
1 Tbsp Grand Marnier (optional)
Method
1. Preheat oven to 325 F.
2. Put chocolate in a dry, clean bowl and melt in microwave oven in 30-second intervals, stirring till you get a smooth paste. Remove and let cool.
3. In a stand mixer, or a hand mixer, cream together butter and sugar till mixture is fluffy and sugar has been cut in well.
4. Add eggs, one at a time. Beat on med-high speed for about 20 seconds after each egg, and scrape down before adding the next one.
5. Add the vanilla and mix to combine.
6. Add dry ingredients in three portions, interspersing with the yogurt and milk and stir gently. So basically, this means 1/3 dry ingredients, yogurt, 1/3 dry ingredients, milk, final third dry ingredient. Stir till all traces of flour is gone.
7. Take out half of the vanilla cake batter and drop it into the baking pan. Add the melted chocolate and cocoa powder and Grand Marnier (if using) to the remaining batter and stir it.
9. Interspersing globs of vanilla batter with chocolate batter, drop batter into pan.
10. Using your spatula, twirl the batter together using a figure-eight motion to mix the batter up to get that nice pretty marble design. Don’t overmix.
11. Smooth out the top of your pan and put cake in oven to bake. If you’re using loaf pans, start to test the cake after about 40 minutes. If using your bundt, it will need about 1 hour (test after 55 minutes). Cake tester should come out clean when it’s done.
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This takes me back to those marble cake slices I used to eat when I was in primary school – the ones that cost about 60cents from places like Honey Bakery. I have a craving for it now, aah! Will have to make this after I make the curry puffs I am also craving for! :P
(On a completely unrelated subject) – Speaking of bakeries, have you ever tried the milk bread and cinnamon buns from Continental Bakery?
Yes Su-Yin, they were always wrapped in plastic, I remember too. I love marble cake.
Where is Continental Bakery? I am in Irvine, CA, USA.
I love House of Annie and love your pics of her pretty marble cake.
Ninette, Annie is a sweetheart. Love her and Nate and their blog. :)
Wow it looks delicious! I love marble cake. I am still on my diet program now. I can only eat my first dessert in December. My plan is to have a small piece of cake. I think I will eat marble cake. Thanks for sharing.
December, another month to go. Good luck and have a few pieces of marble cake when you can. Hehe.
Hi Bee! I didn’t know you had made my marble cake! Hope you liked it. I just made it myself a few days ago. What a good idea to make small loaves. I was wishing I was back in the US so that I could buy that Nordic Ware mini bundt cake mold so I could make tiny ones too. Thanks for the link.
Annie – I love the marble cake!!! As good as the butter cake recipe you gave me.
I have recently baked this too. Unfortunately, I fit everything into my loaf pan and it was too big! The outside was already cooked way before the inside was done…. So it ended up with a rather dry crust. I will love to make them again in minis. May I know how long it took in the oven for the minis?
Hi Mrs Ergul,
I am sorry you had a bad experience. I think I did warn people that this recipe makes a very big cake so if you are going to use a loaf pan, it’s best to split it into 2 regular loaf pans or in Bee’s case, 4 minis. Hope you will give it another go.
Sure I will give it a go again! Maybe I will just halve the recipe because the full recipe really makes a lot and it turned sour before we even manage to finish half of it. I was saddened to have to trash it.
This is simply awesome, looks so moist and tantalizing!
Alice – yes. Moist and buttery marble cake, and pretty, too. Hehe.
Thanks for sharing the recipe, you got the texture just perfect with that marbled effect on the slices, it looks moist and delicious!
Hey Heather, thanks so much. I am not much a baker but I am pretty pleased with the result of this marble cake. :)
The marble cake looks like a super posh version of the marble cakes I used to eat when I was a kid – I will have to try it out one of these days!
Yes, please try out Annie’s marble cake recipe. It’s a keeper!
Looks like mini marble bread lourves. Nice!
Yes, I love minis. Make the marble cake tastes better.
Looks buttery and so good!
Yes, buttery and chocolaty. Great marble cake!
Gorgeous Bee. Love marble cake. It looks so moist and buttery.
Syrie – thank you and thanks to Annie for her great recipe. Yummy!
I love soft buttery cake with black coffee. Ok. When you making Tiger (Tiga) Roll ? ;p
Tiger Roll? I heard about it but I am not that talented in the baking department lah. Have you made it?
i love baking!so i plan to try out this recipe this coming weekend.hmm..will be using loaf pan too so dat it will look just like yours..hope it taste as good too! ~cheers~
This looks awesome! I’m always in search of a good buttery cake recipe. Is this the more compact, buttery type than the soft fluffy type? :)
merk,
check this cake against some of the others and draw your own conclusion.
I always wanted to bake a cake but never been successful. I was wondering if this cake is easy to make? Also, since this one is made for 4 mini loaf, do you think I can make a quarter of recipe? One more thing can you explain how to test the cake? cake tester? TIA
I made this cake over the weekend and it really is delicious. I used sour cream instead of yogurt and large eggs instead of x-large and it came out fine. With the batter, I was able to make 4 mini loaves AND a dozen cupcakes. The cupcakes were done in about 20 min and the loaves about 45. Since I’m pregnant, I had to make sure I didn’t eat it all, so I have been giving it to friends and they all LOVE it! So thanks to you and Annie for a great recipe.
I’ve been making cakes for years, always the sponge or oil version. I could never make a butter cake as it always rose perfectly in the oven but fell when taken out. This is the first butter recipe i’ve made perfectly, the cake was fabulous not only in taste but the texture was light and fluffy. I can’t tell you how pleased i am to have found this recipe. Now im going to let my imagination run wild and see what else i can come up with.