Marble Cake Joy Of Baking

Butter or spray with a non stick spray a 10 inch 25 cm bundt or tube pan.

Marble cake joy of baking. 4 ounces 115 grams semisweet or bittersweet chocolate coarsely chopped. Preheat oven to 350 f 177 c. 2 tablespoons coffee or water. 2 teaspoons baking powder.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees f 180 degrees c and place rack in center of oven. Pound cakes are so named. Add the softened butter and mix on medium low speed until the mixture resembles damp sand about 1 minute. To make things easy on myself i decided to make a yellow cake and marble it.

All went well until i was passing the cake pans into the oven and it dawned on me that i had left out the baking powder. 1 2 cup 113 grams unsalted butter at room temperature. All of the marble cake recipes i found called for orange extract or flavors that i don t associate with a simple yellow chocolate marble cake. This recipe replaced the traditional molasses and spice batter by marbling melted chocolate into the cake a reflection of a new american obsession with chocolate.

Sift the cake flour baking powder and salt together in a large bowl. One of the first recorded recipes for marble cake appears in an american cookbook called aunt babette s cook book. The cake just doesn t taste like marble cake and it is pretty dry not moist at. 2 teaspoons baking powder teaspoon salt 1 cup white sugar.

My husband said that it didn t taste like marble cake. In a heatproof bowl placed over a saucepan of simmering water melt the chocolate with the coffee. Place the cake flour all purpose flour sugar baking powder baking soda and salt in a large mixing bowl and stir to combine. I made this for my husband because he loves marble cake his grandmother makes it for him all the time and she is from germany so it is always good.

With a handheld or stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment beat the butter on high speed in a large bowl until smooth and creamy about 1 minute.