Orange And White Marble Cake

Repeat with remaining cake layers.

Orange and white marble cake. Spray or lightly butter two 9 inch cake pans. In an electric mixer beat on medium speed the sugar eggs and the butter until obtain a homogeneous mixture. Marble cake recipes come in all shapes and sizes. To make these gorgeous cake layers i chose to only swirl together two colors at at time.

I m american but have been living in germany for 12 years. 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. Most recipes i ve seen use melted chocolate but as i explained above i don t care for the texture contrast. Preheat oven to 350 f 177 c.

Traditional marble cake recipes use a mixture of two batters vanilla and chocolate. Let the cake finish cooling on a rack before serving. My mum varied the recipe a lot sometimes making a vanilla cake with a white glaze more often a chocolate marble cake with rich chocolate icing. In large bowl beat cake mix water oil and eggs with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds then on medium speed 2 minutes scraping bowl occasionally.

Then pop the layers into the preheated oven for 34 35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Try to create the lines using one continuous motion going up and down and then side to side. As soon as the done cake is removed from the oven stir together the remaining 1 4 cup sugar the orange juice and the orange liqueur and pour over the still hot cake. But since i prefer my cakes moister i just add a package of instant vanilla pudding to the flour.

Rainbow marble cake layers. Spoon half white mixture into prepared tin top with chocolate mixture and then remaining white smooth top and run knife through in a figure eight. That s one of the reason why i wanted to combine just two colors at a time. Preheat the oven to 180ºc 350ºf grease a bundt cake pan 24 x 8 centimeters 9 1 2 inch diameter with 3 1 4 inch high sides with margarine and sprinkle with flour.

Some make bundt cakes some make pound cakes some make sheet cakes and some make layer cakes. Reserve 1 1 2 cups batter in small bowl. This recipe titled simple cake in my mum s greek cookery bible was baked on both on special occasions and on weekday evenings. Actually german marble cake tends to be drier than the american version.