Old Fashioned Marble Cake No Chocolate Recipes

MARBLE CAKE I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9 inch round pan.
• Place flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, butter or margarine, eggs, vanilla, and milk into mixing bowl. Beat slowly to moisten, then beat with an electric mixer at medium speed for about 2 minutes until smooth. Reserve 3/4 cup batter; pour the remainder into pan.
• Stir cocoa into the 3/4 cup reserved batter. Drop by spoonfuls over top of white batter. Using a knife, swirl the cocoa batter into the white batter to incorporate it in a marble effect.
• Bake in preheated oven for 30 to 35 minutes, until an inserted wooden pick comes out clean.

OLD-FASHIONED MARBLE CAKE (NO CHOCOLATE)

Steps:

• Separate the eggs; beat egg whites until stiff and set aside.
• Make the light part and then the dark part:.
• Light Part: Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Mix together flour and baking powder and stir into batter alternately with milk and mix until blended, but do not overbeat. Stir in the lemon rind and vanilla. Fold in beaten egg whites, then set light portion aside.
• Dark Part: Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.Beat in egg yolks one at a time.Mix flour, baking powder and spices together and add dry ingredients alternately with the milk, then stir in vanilla.
• In a greased and floured pan tube pan, arrange spoonfuls of light and dark batter alternately.
• Bake at 350 degrees for about 50 minutes or until cake tests done (depends on your oven, original recipe did not give time).
• If desired, frost with a white boiling icing that has been flavored with lemon juice, or flavor a buttercream icing with lemon juice and spread on cake while warm.

MARVELOUS MARBLE CAKE

Steps:

• In top of a double boiler or a metal bowl over barely simmering water, melt chocolate and 3 tablespoons butter; stir until smooth. Cool to room temperature., Preheat oven to 375°. Line bottoms of three greased 8-in. round baking pans with parchment; grease parchment., In a large bowl, cream remaining butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add 1 egg at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Whisk flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream, beating well after each addition., Remove 2 cups batter to a small bowl; stir in cooled chocolate mixture and, if desired, chocolate chips, until blended. Drop plain and chocolate batters by tablespoonfuls into prepared pans, dividing batters evenly among pans. To make batter level in pans, bang cake pans several times on counter., Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 20-25 minutes. Cool in pans 10 minutes before removing to wire racks; remove parchment. Cool completely., For frosting, in a large bowl, beat butter until smooth. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar, vanilla and enough milk to reach desired consistency., If cake layers have rounded tops, trim with a serrated knife to make level. In a microwave, melt chocolate chips; stir until smooth. Cool slightly., Place 1 cake layer on a serving plate; spread with 1/2 cup frosting. Repeat layers. Top with remaining cake layer. Frost top and sides of cake., Drop cooled chocolate by 1/2 teaspoonfuls over frosting. Using a large offset spatula, smear chocolate to create a marble design in frosting.

OLD-FASHIONED MARBLE BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• For the vanilla batter: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Generously spray a 12-cup Bundt pan with the baking spray.
• Combine the butter, sugar, salt, baking powder, vanilla and oil in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat on medium speed for 4 minutes. Stop and scrape the bowl and paddle with a rubber spatula. Add 2 of the eggs at a time, beating on medium speed for 30 seconds after each addition. Scrape the bowl.
• Add half of the cake flour and mix on low speed just until combined. Add the cream and buttermilk and mix again on low speed just until combined. Scrape the bowl.
• Add the remaining cake flour and start mixing on low speed to combine, then increase the speed to medium and beat for 4 minutes.
• For the chocolate batter: Transfer 2 cups of the vanilla batter to a medium bowl. Add the cocoa, sugar and baking powder and stir with a fork or small whisk until completely combined. Add the hot water and stir slowly until completely combined.
• Pour about half of the vanilla batter into the prepared pan. Dollop about half of the chocolate batter on top. Repeat with the remaining vanilla and chocolate batters. Run a skewer or butter knife through the pan to slightly swirl the 2 batters together.
• Bake until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out with a few moist crumbs, 65 to 70 minutes. The cake will rise to fill the pan and will settle slightly once removed from the oven. Let the cake cool in the pan for about 30 minutes then turn it out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

OLD FASHIONED MARBLE BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• Grease an 8" bundt pan with butter then lightly dust with flour.
• In a double boiler melt the unsweetened chocolate with 1/4 cup sugar, water and vanilla extract. Stir. Set aside to cool. (I used a heatproof glass container and melted the mixture in a microwave.).
• In a large mixing bowl, cream the remaining 1 cup sugar, sour cream and the softened butter until light and fluffy.
• Mix in the eggs one at a time.
• Sift the flour with the baking powder, salt and baking soda.
• Mixing on slow speed, alternate dry ingredients and the buttermilk into the mixture.
• Mixing on low speed, beat until just incorporated, stopping to scrape down the sides.
• Once combined, beat on high speed for 2 1/2 minutes.
• Set aside 2 1/2 cups of the batter.
• Beat the melted chocolate mixture into the large mixing bowl of batter until combined and smooth.
• Alternately spoon the plain batter and the chocolate batter in the prepared bundt pan.
• Use a butter knife to cut through the batter to create a marble effect.
• Bake for approximately 40-45 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
• Cook cake 10 minutes, invert onto a cake platter.
• Dust with confectioner's sugar while still warm.
• Yield: One 8" bundt cake.

MARBLE SWIRL POUND CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, with electric mixer at low speed, beat sugar and butter or margarine until blended. Increase speed to high, and beat until light and fluffy. Add flour, milk, baking powder, vanilla, salt, and eggs; beat at medium speed until well mixed. Increase speed to high, and beat batter 4 minutes longer.
• Remove about 2 1/2 cups batter to a medium bowl. With a wire whisk or fork, beat cocoa into batter in medium bowl until well blended.
• Grease a 10 inch tube pan. Alternately spoon vanilla and chocolate layers into prepared pan. With a large spoon, cut and twist through batters to obtain marbled effect.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool cake in pan, and on a wire rack, for 10 minutes. Remove cake from pan, and cool completely.