I have wanted to make a marble cake for quite some time now, but every time I bake my usual cake I forget to leave out the cocoa and then I don’t feel like making a second lot of batter. Pure laziness on my behalf I know! Marble cakes look so pretty and I can remember baking them as a child and being amazed at how they always came out with the marble effect. I have seen various methods of making sure your cake looks good but when I read this recipe in my 80 recipes for your bread maker book I was impressed with the ease of getting the marble effect. I was not going to use my bread maker to bake this in as my terrine needs some loving attention as it has not been used nearly enough! I will definitely bake this again using my usual cake batter recipe to see if it comes out as nicely.
have you got a special method for baking marble cakes?
- 75g dark chocolate
- 175g butter, softened
- 75g sugar - I used fructose
- 100g clemengold lime and ginger marmalade
- 3 eggs
- 5mls baking powder
- 100g self raising flour
- Preheat the oven to 180° Celsius
- Prepare a rectangular baking tin
- Melt the chocolate over a double boiler
- Cream the butter and the sugar
- Add the marmalade and mix in
- Add the eggs one at a time mixing in each one completely before adding the next one
- Add the baking powder
- Add the flour a tablespoon at a time
- Mix until the batter is smooth
- Pour the batter into the baking tin
- Pour in the melted chocolate and run the spatula through the batter to mix the chocolate through the mix
- Bake for 30 minutes and allow to cool before removing from the tin
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Tandy
Nicely done Tandy – I have never made a marble cake – love the sound of adding marmalade too.
🙂 Mandy xo
Thanks Mandy, and welcome back 🙂
Now that is something I could well enjoy with a cup of coffee at morning and afternoon tea 🙂
It is a perfect tea time treat 🙂
The marbling looks fantastic.
Thanks so much 🙂
I love the way you presented it with the fruit!
Thank you Alex 🙂
I adore marble cakes! Marmalade sounds like a very nice addition, Tandy! x
Your marble cake looked amazing and was an inspiration for me to get this done 🙂
I do not, actually I’ve never tried it before. Looks soft 🙂
It was very soft and very delicious 🙂
Beautiful marble cake Tandy! I would never have thought about using marmalade with chocolate, but this sounds fantastic.
It leant such a nice texture to the cake Sarah 🙂
Looks beautiful – bet it tasted great!
And it lasted quite a long time 🙂
I remember making marble cakes with my mom! They were always fascinating to me as well! She would always watch over me so I would not get carried away with the swirling for if I did it would become too mixed. A light cutting around with a cake spatula was all that was needed. I think you’ve put the bug in me to back one soon!!
I am so glad I gave you a happy memory! These cakes look so good and I think I will bake one with my niece next week 🙂
Paired with the chocolate semi-freddo and fruit this dessert makes quite a statement. I would never thought to add marmelade to the cake, but it sounds really delicious!
Thank you Barb, I decided to style two recipes in one photo – and the taste combination was really good as well 🙂
I’ve never baked one and have always been too lazy. The marmalade in your recipe has me sold, though. Looks very good.
This could become my new signature cake recipe but it will have to wait a bit – the scale was not my friend today 🙂