Marble Cake
The staple of Bulgarian home baking, eaten with morning coffee — a moist oil-and-milk loaf with vanilla and cocoa batters swirled through each other. Matching the thickness of the two batters gives clean, defined marbling.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 4 eggs, room temperature
- 200 g sugar
- 150 ml sunflower oil
- 200 ml milk
- 320 g plain flour
- 10 g baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp lemon zest, finely grated
- 3 tbsp cocoa powder
- 2 tbsp milk, for the cocoa batter
- 10 g butter, for the tin
- 1 tbsp icing sugar, to dust
Nutrition (estimated)
high confidenceRecipe total: 4021 kcal · P 80g · C 517.4g · F 200.4g
Estimated from 12 of 12 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
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Steps
Steps
- 1Heat the oven to 180°C (fan 170°C). Butter a 30 cm loaf tin or a 24 cm ring tin and dust it with flour.
- 2Whisk the eggs and sugar with an electric mixer for 5 minutes until pale and doubled in volume.
- 3With the mixer on low, pour in the oil in a thin stream, then the milk, vanilla and lemon zest.
- 4Sift the flour with the baking powder and fold it in with a spatula in three additions, just until no dry flour remains — overmixing makes the cake tough and full of tunnels.
- 5Transfer a third of the batter to another bowl and stir in the cocoa and 2 tbsp milk until smooth; it should be as thick as the light batter, so the two sink into each other evenly.
- 6Spoon the batters into the tin in alternating dollops, then draw a skewer through them in a few figure-of-eight loops — two or three passes only, or the marbling blurs to brown.
- 7Bake for 45–50 minutes, without opening the oven for the first 30, until risen, cracked on top and a skewer comes out clean.
- 8Cool in the tin for 10 minutes, turn out onto a rack and cool completely before dusting with icing sugar and slicing.
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Questions and answers
How long does Marble Cake take to make?
About 70 minutes: 20 min prep and 50 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Marble Cake?
11 ingredients: eggs, sugar, sunflower oil, milk, plain flour, baking powder, vanilla extract, lemon zest, cocoa powder, butter, icing sugar.
How many servings does this Marble Cake recipe make?
10 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Marble Cake?
About 402 kcal, with 8 g protein, 51.7 g carbohydrate and 20 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
Which diets does this Marble Cake recipe suit?
It is vegetarian.
What cuisine is Marble Cake?
Marble Cake comes from Bulgarian cuisine.
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