Marble Cake Joy Of Baking

2 teaspoons baking powder teaspoon salt 1 cup white sugar.

Marble cake joy of baking.

Place the cake flour all purpose flour sugar baking powder baking soda and salt in a large mixing bowl and stir to combine. Sift the cake flour baking powder and salt together in a large bowl. Spray or lightly butter two 9 inch cake pans. To make things easy on myself i decided to make a yellow cake and marble it.

One of the first recorded recipes for marble cake appears in an american cookbook called aunt babette s cook book. Preheat oven to 350 f 177 c. I made this for my husband because he loves marble cake his grandmother makes it for him all the time and she is from germany so it is always good. This recipe replaced the traditional molasses and spice batter by marbling melted chocolate into the cake a reflection of a new american obsession with chocolate.

Butter or spray with a non stick spray a 10 inch 25 cm bundt or tube pan. In a heatproof bowl placed over a saucepan of simmering water melt the chocolate with the coffee. Preheat oven to 350 degrees f 180 degrees c and place rack in center of oven. My husband said that it didn t taste like marble cake.

Add the softened butter and mix on medium low speed until the mixture resembles damp sand about 1 minute. 2 teaspoons baking powder. 2 tablespoons coffee or water. The cake just doesn t taste like marble cake and it is pretty dry not moist at.

With a handheld or stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment beat the butter on high speed in a large bowl until smooth and creamy about 1 minute. All went well until i was passing the cake pans into the oven and it dawned on me that i had left out the baking powder. Pound cakes are so named. 4 ounces 115 grams semisweet or bittersweet chocolate coarsely chopped.

1 1 2 cups plus 2 tablespoons 195 grams cake flour sifted.