Marble Cake with Cocoa and Vanilla

A moist marble cake in which light vanilla batter and dark cocoa batter merge into a beautiful pattern. It tastes just as good with coffee as it does as a sweet finish to a meal.

By yumbelo-Küche · 8 servings · 90 minutes

Ingredients

• 250 g Butter
• 10 g Butter for the tin
• 250 g Sugar
• 4 Stück Eggs
• 1 TL Vanilla extract
• 300 g Plain flour
• 1 Packung Baking powder
• 1 Prise Salt
• 200 ml Milk
• 40 g Cocoa powder

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 175 °C, top and bottom heat. Grease a loaf tin (about 25 cm) with butter and dust it with a little flour.
2. Beat the softened butter with the sugar and a pinch of salt for about 5 minutes until light and fluffy.
3. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla extract.
4. Mix the flour and baking powder and fold them into the butter mixture alternately with the milk until you have a smooth batter.
5. Transfer about a third of the batter to a second bowl and stir in the cocoa. If the cocoa portion is too thick, loosen it with 2 tbsp of milk from the reserved amount, only if needed.
6. Spoon the light and dark batters alternately into the tin, then drag a knife once loosely through the batter in a spiral to create the marble pattern.
7. Bake the cake on the lower third of the oven for about 55 to 60 minutes. Check with a wooden skewer: if it comes out dry, the cake is done.
8. Let the cake cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then turn it out onto a wire rack and let it cool completely before you slice it.