I like marble cakes, and have tried quite a number of recipes from various cookbooks. This marble cake is different from the rest as there's melted white chocolate mixed into the plain batter. Since there's dark chocolate used for the chocolate batter, then why not white chocolate for the plain batter, a delicious idea! A lovely recipe, from the cookbook, Classic German Baking, which is fast climbing its way up in the list among my top favourite baking book.
The author, Luisa Weiss, got this recipe from her assistant, Maja, which is her family recipe. The only change I made was to reduce the sugar to 170gm. This cake is baked either in a Gugelhupf or bundt pan. I've used my bundt pan and bake for exactly 45 minutes.
Cake is moist, with soft closed crumbs. The white part of the cake with an almost velvety crumbs, best as described by the author on the melted white chocolate in the batter "Don't worry, this doesn't make the batter taste of white chocolate. When the cake is baked, the white parts simply tastes richer, toastier, and more complex".
A slice or two is very nice with either coffee, tea or just a glass of milk.
The recipe can also be found here or from the book Classic German Baking, page 72
kitchen flavour's notes :
reduced sugar to 170gm
baked in a bundt pan for 40 minutes
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Gorgeous swirls! The cake looks perfect, Joyce.
ReplyDeleteI love marble cake ! this looks wonderful !!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous cake. I just picked up a copy of that book but haven't baked much from it....yet. It certainly has many enticing recipes.
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