Marble Cake
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.
Prepare the doughs
In a bowl, mix the red food coloring with enough plain cake dough to make it bright red.
In another bowl, mix the same amount of plain cake dough with melted chocolate.
Layer and bake
Fill a paper-lined square pan half full with plain dough.
Make four deep furrows in the dough and fill them alternately with red and chocolate mixtures.
Cover with another layer of plain dough and smooth the top.
Bake in a slow oven at 300°F (150°C) until done.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Melted chocolate
- Adds chocolate flavor and a darker colour to the swirled batter.
- Red food coloring
- Gives one portion of the batter its bright red colour, creating the contrast.
The step that matters
Layering the furrows. Filling the furrows alternately and covering them with plain dough keeps the red and chocolate batters separated, so the marbling shows clearly after baking rather than blending into a single muddy colour.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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