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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have marmorkuchen (german marble cake) using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake):

1. Get 250 g soft butter
2. Get 300 g sugar
3. Make ready 8 eggs (7 eggs if large)
4. Make ready 1 pinch salt
5. Make ready 2 Tbsp rum or sour cream
6. Get 1/2 vanilla bean pod, seeds scraped out (optional)
7. Prepare 1 Tbsp lemon zest (from about 1/2 lemon)
8. Make ready 375 g cake flour (or 300 g flour + 75 g starch)
9. Make ready 8 g baking powder
10. Get 3 Tbsp cocoa powder
11. Get 1/2 tsp cinnamon (optional)
12. Prepare Powdered sugar to dust
13. Prepare 1 round bundt/ring cake form (I used a 26 cm round ring cake form)

You can increase/decrease the cake size depending on your needs or the size of your baking pan (use a Bundt or loaf pan). Marble cake has withstood the test of time - is it still one of the most popular birthday cakes in Germany both for children and adults. This is the classical German marbled cake. I made my first Marmorkuchen when I was a exchange student in Germany.

Instructions to make Marmorkuchen (German Marble Cake):

1. Oil and dust with flour your cake form. Preheat oven to 180°C.
2. Cream the butter with 1/3 of the sugar until fluffy. Then, alternating with the eggs, add the rest of the sugar spoon by spoon mixing each time you add sugar or an egg. Beat until you have a very well beaten and fluffy batter.
3. Mix in the salt, rum or sour cream, vanilla and lemon zest.
4. Sieve in a third of the flour and mix well. Mix the rest of the flour with the baking powder and gradually mix in.
5. Fill the form with half of the batter.Add 2-3 Tbsp cocoa powder to the rest of the batter along with the cinnamon if using. Pour in the dark batter on top of the light batter.
6. With a fork, work the two batters together with spiral motions. Even out the top so it's level.
7. Bake at 180°C for about 45-60 minutes (test by inserting a toothpick or skewer into the cake. If it comes out clean it’s done). Mine took 45 minutes in this pan.
8. Let the cake cool briefly then remove onto a cake rack. Let cool completely.
9. Dust with powdered sugar. Slice and serve with coffee or tea.

This Marmorkuchen, a German marble cake, is a great companion to coffee to enjoy Germay's "fourth-meal." Subtle aromas of warming, spiced Austrian STROH rum, real vanilla and lemon zest are paired with the richness of cocoa and a dark chocolate glaze (find out where STROH is available in. Actually, German marble cake tends to be drier than the American version. But since I prefer my cakes moister, I just add a package of instant vanilla pudding to the flour! I have been looking for this recipe for a LONG long time! Every time i would go visit family in Germany my aunt always made this.

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