Lemon Molasses Marble Cake Recipes

OLD-FASHIONED MOLASSES CAKE

Steps:

• In a small bowl, beat butter and sugar until crumbly, about 2 minutes. Beat in egg. Beat in molasses. Combine the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon and salt; add to butter mixture alternately with water, mixing well after each addition., Transfer to a 9-in. square baking pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Cut into squares; garnish with whipped topping.

LEMON MOLASSES MARBLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350*F. Butter and flour a 9 to 10 inch bundt pan or tube pan and set aside.
• To make the molasses batter, cream together the butter and brown sugar until very light. Beat in the egg yolks one at a time; beat in the molasses. Sift the dry ingredients together and add the batter alternately with the yoghurt, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients. Do NOT over mix.
• To make the lemon batter, cream together the butter and the sugar and lemon zest until very light. Add the lemon extract. sift the dry ingredients together and add to the creamed mixture alternately with the yoghurt beginning and ending with the dry ingredients. Do NOT overmix. Beat the egg whites with the salt until nearly stiff. Fold about 1/4 of them into the batter to lighten it, then gently fold in the remainder.
• Drop 3 or 4 large dollops of the lemon batter into the prepared cake pan. Top with 3 or 4 dollops of molasses batter. continue layering batters until all is used up. Gently rap the pan once against the countertop to settle the batters. With a butter knife, swirl the batters together a few times without over-doing it.
• Bake until the cake is golden brown and a toothpick inserted near the centre comes out clean, about 1 hour.
• Cool the cake in the pan on a wire rack for 10 to 15 minutes. Loosen the cake from the pan and unmold onto the rack to cool completely. Dust with icing sugar before serving. A lemon glaze is also nice on this.

MARBLE MOLASSES CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease loaf pan.
• Cream butter in mixer.
• Add sugar gradually and beat until light and fluffy.
• Add beaten eggs and continue to cream.
• Mix flour, baking powder and salt in separate bowl.
• Add flour mixture alternately with milk to butter mixture.
• Remove 2/3 of batter from bowl.
• Add spices and molasses to remaining 1/3 of batter and beat well.
• Alternate light and dark batters in greased loaf pan.
• Bake for one hour.

OMA'S GERMAN MARBLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one 10 inch tube pan.
• In a large bowl, cream the butter with the sugar. Beat in egg yolks. Continue beating for 10 minutes.
• Gradually stir in flour, alternating with splashes of milk, until all of the flour and milk are mixed in. Stir in baking powder.
• In a separate bowl, beat egg whites. Fold egg whites into batter.
• Reserve 1/4 of the batter, and pour the rest into a greased, floured tube pan.
• Mix cocoa into the remaining 1/4 of the batter. Then turn into tube pan, and fold under with a fork to produce a marbled appearance.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 60 to 70 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.