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This marvellous marble cake is really great for impressing your friends and family as it looks quite complicated to make, although in reality, it’s actually quite simple.  The cake is so moist and delicious that it can be served on its own, but it can also be served with chocolate or vanilla icing if you like.

For a chocolaty version of this delectable dessert, try a chocolate marble cake with chocolate icing.

 

Ingredients:

For the white part:

• 4 egg whites
• 200g granulated sugar
• 110g butter, softened
• 250g flour
• 2tsp baking powder
• 1/2tsp salt
• 125ml milk
• 1tsp vanilla extract

For the brown part:

• 110g butter, softened
• 130g brown sugar
• 4 egg yolks
• 1/2tsp baking soda
• 150ml molasses
• 250g flour
• 2tsp baking powder
• 1/2tsp salt
• 1/2tsp nutmeg
• 1tsp cinnamon
• 1tsp ground ginger
• 60ml milk

Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC.
2. Butter and flour an 8cm deep x 20cm wide cake pan.
3. Make the white part of the cake:
4. Beat the egg whites until soft peaks are formed.
5. Add half of the sugar and keep beating until the whites are stiff.
6. Cream the butter with the rest of the sugar in a separate bowl.
7. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together and add this mixture to the butter a little at a time, alternating with the milk.  Mix well after each addition.
8. Mix in the vanilla extract.
9. Fold the egg whites into the batter.
10. Make the brown part of the cake:
11. Cream the butter with the sugar.
12. Beat in the egg yolks.
13. Dissolve the baking soda into the molasses in a saucepan over low heat.
14. Sift the flour with the baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger in a separate bowl.
15. Combine the flour mixture with the molasses mixture.
16. Add the flour and molasses mixture to the butter and sugar a little at a time, alternating with the milk.  Mix well after each addition.
17. Mix both the white and brown parts together:
18. Alternately place heaped tablespoons of the white and brown mixture into the cake pan to produce a marbled effect.
19. Bake in the preheated oven for at least an hour or until a knife inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.

Prep Time:  20 minutes

Cooking Time:  60 minutes

Serves:  8

Difficulty:  Medium

Tags: brown sugar, butter, cake, cinnamon, dessert, egg whites, egg yolks, flour, granulated sugar, ground ginger, marvellous marble cake, milk, molasses, nutmeg, vanilla extract

This entry was posted on Monday, 16 April, 2012 at 1:45 pm by Sarah White and is filed under Desserts, Less than 90 mins. You can follow any responses to this entry through the feed RSS 2.0. You can leave a comment, or make a trackback from your own blog.