Nannie's Marble Cake

Submitted by kzbhansen

"My granmother was German and made this cake and I have very fond memories of eating this with her at the dining room table talking away the troubles of a young girls day. LOL Lots of butter and eggs. Not a low cal low carb cake but its soooo good. I had to sit and watch her make this stopping her to trya and measure this recipe out. This makes 1 bundt cake or 6 muffins."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 30mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Yields: 1 cake
• Serves: 6-8

ingredients

• 3⁄4 lb butter
• 2 1⁄2 cups sugar
• 6 eggs, seperated
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon lemon rind
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 3 teaspoons baking cocoa
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 tablespoons sour cream

directions

1. Cream together the 3/4 pounds of butter and sugar, mix well.
2. Add 6 egg yolks, and vanilla and beat well.
3. Add grated lemon rind and beat.
4. Add flour sifted with 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder.
5. Beat 6 egg whites until stiff and fold into the above mixture. Reserve 2 cups of this mixture to make the chocolate mixture.

6. Chocolate mixture:

7. In bowl Combine 2 Tablespoons sugar, 3 heaping teaspoons cocoa, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, 2 heaping tablespoons of sour cream, and 2 cups of the above batter to make the chocolate mixture.
8. Grease bundt pan well add white batter then chocolate batter alternately until the pan is over 1/2 full.
9. Bake at 325 on lowest rack in the oven for 1 hour until brown.
10. When cooled you can frost to your liking or sprinkle with powdered sugar.
11. We ate it as is and it was wonderful.

Reviews

[KHOSTheory]

I followed the recipe exactly. Read it several times because the batter turned out so thick I couldn't pour it. It turned out like a brick of sugar. Not real sure what happened.

 

[Ozlem]

used yogurt instead of sour cream, and whole wheat pastry flour instead of all purpose flour.<br/>everybody loved it, adviced that it could be better with 2 cups of sugar... thanks for sharing the recipe.

 

[m_dino]

This is sooo easy to make. Its so amazing... My husband thinks its a too sweet... but I still give it a 5 stars!!! Thanks for sharing this wonderful recipe.

 

[ljillann]

Followed exactly, I was nervous when it seemed more like a cookie dough, then the egg whites loosened it up TG. Made for my daughters birthday. She was thrilled. Thanks for the great recipe.

 

[Acerast]

Family traditions often make the best recipes and this is a great cake! It has a great aroma, taste and crumb and was very pretty when sliced. I made it and gave it to a friend who had a recent surgery and when I stopped by the next day she and her son had devoured half of it in one evening! (I think the culprit was her bottomless-pit-son). I used a stoneware bundt pan from Pampered Chef so it required additional baking time. I will make this again using a traditional metal bundt because it smelled so good that my family was disappointed that I had given it away. Thanks and all the best to you Karen (kzbhansen)!