Here’s my favorite chocolate marble cake recipe and I’ve tried a few others. But compared to this one they always disappointed. They were either too dry, too bland, too moist, or really just okay. But this chocolate marble cake, just thinking about it I’m drooling. It’s light, fluffy, moist but not too moist, it has a thin crust contrasting with the best crumbs ever and the chocolate part actually tastes like chocolate. After trying it I’m 100% the others will pale in comparison. It’s a pretty simple cake and it is a thing of beauty. This chocolate marble cake can be in the oven in 20 min tops and I promise you, everyone will ask for a second slice.

A CAKE FOR THE AGES

Sadly I cannot give myself the credit for this chocolate marble cake as the recipe was given to me by my mother, who in turn got it from a lunch lady 30 years ago. My mum was never much of a baker or a cook, and I can’t blame her, she had other fish to fry what with taking care of 2 children, having a full-time job and dealing with most of the house chores. She didn’t find comfort and joy in food as I did, whose passion for food started at a very young age. Nevertheless from time to time, coming home from school we would smell this delicious chocolate marble cake’s aroma coming from the kitchen. It would always be the nicest of surprises and I can easily recall myself eating a huge slice of cake on our patio while reading Harry Potter, trying to enjoy every last minute before having to do my homework.

Don’t worry, I’m not overselling this cake because of great childhood memories and love for my mum, it genuinely is great. All my friends are in awe of its moist but light crumb and have asked me for the recipe at one time or the other.

THE SIMPLEST RECIPE

It’s a very straightforward and simple recipe. Even a child could do it, and I did it a lot as a child/teenager when my mum wasn’t feeling like baking or when we had to bring baked goods for a school fundraiser (and these chocolate marble cake slices were always selling like crazy: proof of concept). I can still remember the ingredients list and the recipe by heart. So if you’re looking for a recipe to do with little ones or just an easy & quick recipe here you go. Seriously not much can go wrong, you mix stuff in a big bowl, divide it between 2 bowls, mix more stuff in, pour in the loaf pan, swirl, bake and voilà! But let me warn you, after tasting it, you’re gonna start craving for this chocolate marble cake more and more often.

Chocolate marble cake

Author: Amélie
Prep Time: 20M
Cook Time: 45
Total Time: 65M
Yield: 10 slices 1x
Category: Dessert
Method: Oven
Cuisine: French

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Description

The most comforting cake of all; my mum’s chocolate marble cake. It’s light and fluffy but still moist with a deep chocolate taste. Bonus: it can be in your oven in 20 min tops!

Ingredients

Scale

250g light brown sugar (1 ¼ cup)
2 eggs
120ml milk (1/2 cup)
120ml vegetable oil (1/2 cup)
250g flour (1 ¾ cup)
11g baking powder (1 tbsp)
3 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 tbsp powdered sugar (optional)

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F). Butter a 26*10cm (10*4 inch) nonstick loaf pan. Sift together the flour and baking powder in a medium size bowl.
In a large bowl, use the whisk to mix the eggs and sugars until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
Add the milk and oil and continue whisking until combined.
Gradually add ¾ of the dry ingredients that you set aside earlier and mix until combined.
Make the chocolate batter: scrap down 1/3 of the cake batter into a smaller bowl with a silicone spatula. Add the cocoa powder to this batter and mix.
Make the vanilla batter: add the rest of the dry ingredients and the vanilla extract to the plain batter and mix with a clean whisk.
Pour down 1/3 of the vanilla batter in the buttered loaf pan. Pour down 1/3 of the chocolate batter on top of it. Keep alternating these layers until you run out of batter.
Gently swirl a small knife blade (be careful not to touch the base of your pan if it’s a non-stick one) into the batters to create a marble effect. Don’t overdo it so as not to mix the batters. Smooth the top.
Bake for 45min or until a wooden toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.
Set the pan on a wire rack to cool for 15 minutes, then invert the chocolate marble cake directly onto the rack. If you want to dust the cake with powdered sugar, wait for it to be completely cold first.

Notes

This chocolate marble cake will keep, wrapped airtight in foil, at room temperature for up to 3 days.

For a plain vanilla loaf cake, do not put the cocoa powder, keep the batter in one big mixing bowl and add 1 tsp of vanilla extract.

For a plain chocolate loaf cake, keep the batter in one big mixing bowl and add more cocoa powder to taste.

Nutrition

Serving Size: 1 slice
Calories: 314
Fat: 12.6g

Keywords: chocolate marble cake, marble cake, cake, simple cake, chocolate

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