For the third day of the final week of Blogging Marathon#20 I decided to make use of the fluted tube pan I bought from Chennai. Though I have posted many cake recipes, I haven’t yet posted the marble cake. So I tried it out today. The cake was not so pretty. I should have used a knife to make the marbling pattern instead of tooth pick. But the taste was absolutely delicious. The cake is slightly sweet and the icing balances the sweetness needed. I used cocoa powder icing but if you want a chocolaty version you can go for melted chocolate. My daughter had a small piece and she enjoyed it a lot. I also enjoyed baking in my new pan. I am linking this to Srivalli’s Kid’s Delight- Party Specials.
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Ingredients:
For The Cake:
Butter-1/2 + 1/8cup
Granulated Sugar-1 1/4cups
Flour/ Maida- 2 1/4cups
Baking Powder-3/4tbs
Curd/ Plain Yogurt-1/2cup
Milk-1 + 1/4cups
Vanilla Essence-1tsp
Cocoa Powder-1 1/2tbs
For The Icing:
Cocoa Powder-1 1/2tbs
Powdered Sugar-1 1/2cups
Hot Water-2-3tbs
Procedure:
1. Preheat oven to 180C.
2. Grease and dust a 9″ fluted pan.
3. In a bowl mix flour and baking powder and mix well.
4. In another bowl beat butter and sugar until fluffy.
5. Add vanilla and curd and beat again until fluffy.
6. Add in 1 cup of milk and flour and mix with a wooden spatula.
7. Divide the batter into 2 equal portions. To one portion add cocoa powder and 1/4cup of milk and mix to combine.
8. Drop spoon full of white batter leaving space for chocolate batter.
9. Filled the left out spaces with chocolate batter.
10. Add another layer of batters by placing chocolate batter on vanilla batter and vanilla on chocolate.
11. With a knife, make spiral motions inside the batter to obtain the marble effect.
12. Do not over mix.
13. Bake for 20-25minutes or until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean.
14. After 5-10minutes, invert the pan on a wire rack and remove pan.
15. Allow it to cool completely.
16. In a bowl sift together sugar and cocoa powder.
17. Add hot water until it reaches a pouring consistency.
18. Pour the icing on the cake.
19. Allow it to set.
20. Carefully transfer the cake on to a serving plate.
21. Slice it up and serve.
wow it looks beautiful..
Wow wat an elegant and super spongy marble cake.
Delicious, love that icing on top!
Delicious, love that icing on top!
Delicious, love that icing on top!
lovely and beautiful… just amazing!!!
Sowmya
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looks so pretty :)the icing is definitely taking that cake a notch up!
Wow…looks superb and mouthwatering…looks absolutely delicious.
Ah, I gotta make a marble cake too once I get back home to my beloved oven!
Omg .. really awesome… mouthwatering
Yummy and tempting cake !!!!
what makes you think it isn’t pretty? It is very very pretty!
Woow, beautiful and stunning…
Looks yummy and beautiful
Ho wow. I will die for this cake. Yum cake.
The cake looks really nice!
Hello.Thankyou very very much for this recipe.The cake came out so well so soft that I could not believe it.I have used eggs because I felt that cakes without eggs are a waste. But you changed my belief.So thankyou very much once again.
Thank you so much for this recipe. This was the best cake I ever baked! Though an amateur, I love to bake and most often it does not turn very good. But this one was a game changer. Thank you!
Hi gayatri iam using 28 ltrs Morphy Richards otg everytime i bake a cake the upper layer of the cake gets burnt. Please tell me how to preheat and for how many mins it should be baked on which rack in detail. Please reply
You need to preheat oven to 10 minutes. While baking, place the tin in the middle rack. If you feel that it is browning fast, place an aluminium foil on top of the tin. This is called as tenting and it slows the browning on top.
Hi gayathiri cook spot , have a doubt? can i substitute 1/2 cup ygurt/curd with 2 eggs, will it come good as yours? and whats the purpose of 1/8 cup butter, why yu divide butter into 2 portion..
I haven’t tried substituting like this. But it may work. And I am not dividing the butter. It is just that the butter quantity is 1/2 cup and extra 1/8th cup.
hello madam thanks for recipies. I want to know how to take out cake from this kind of fluted pan…. mine never comes out clear
Greasing and dusting is so important in this type of pans. Even a small point is left without the greasing, the cake will stick there and doesn’t come out as a single piece.
Hi
My cup measures 250 ml. How shd adjust ur recipie for that? Please help me out.
Measure the weight of ingredients and use. I have the weight conversion chart in my measurements page. Please check it out..
Hi, I tried this cake today..while yours looks awesome, mine was a disaster 🙁 to start with it didnt have the marble look and then the cake was uncooked in the centre. Also the icing was too sweet in taste 🙁 can u please tell me where I went wrong? If possible please upload a video recipe of the same. Thanks in advance 🙂
The cake needs a little bit more time in the oven. And for the marbling part, it all depends on how you swirl the batter. As the icing is full of icing sugar, it would be sweet. You can decrease the amount of icing used or go for a non iced cake if you feel it very sweet.
Hi Ma’am,
I baked this marble cake in an 8inch round pan…it took about an hour to cook…. it collapsed in the middle while cooling down on a wire rack….what could have gone wrong….is the pan small for this batter?
Please check the temperature of the oven. There are so many reasons why a cake fails. Please check whether the measurement are proper.
Hi. Firstly , let me just thank you for the wonderful eggless vanilla cake recipe. I had tried so many recipes earlier and after several attempts, eventually gave up. As a last try I tried your recipe and voila !!! the cake turned out to be the best eggless vanilla!!
Also , can we substitute butter with oil ?
Can I make marble cake using your vanilla recipe. I’m confident about that now
Thanks
Hello
Thanks a ton for the best ever eggless vanilla recipe
Can’t we make marble cake using your vanilla recipe…
Can we substitute butter with oil ?
Thanks
Hi, you can do that. Check my best chocolate cake recipe too. You can combine both to make marble cake. And you can sub melted butter for oil in both recipes.
Can I know why baking soda is not used in this recipe?
A cake recipe can have any type of leavening like baking powder, baking soda, eggs, yeast or a combination of any two or more leavening agents. There is no particular rule in using both baking powder and baking soda together. I hope this helps.
Hello Ma’am,
Can we use the same recipe to make a zebra cake?
We need a bit of flowing batter for zebra cake. Try my zebra cake recipe itself. It would be better.