Danish Marmorkage – Marble Cake

December 20, 2010 by mydanishkitchen

Marmorkage

This cake was the very first cake I learned to bake and I made it quite often when I was a young girl. It was my favorite cake at that time. It had been years since I last baked this cake that I had almost forgotten about it. Then when I played the blogging game “Tag” I was reminded of it and I decided it was time for a revisit. This version of Marmorkage is a dense cake which is not overly sweet. The original version has more white cake than chocolate, but since I love chocolate I always reverse it.

Marmorkage

Ingredients:

130 gram salted butter (1 stick plus 1 tablespoon)

200 gram sugar (1 cup)

3 eggs

1 teaspoon baking powder

250 gram flour (2 1/4 cup)

1 deciliter milk (1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoon)

6 tablespoon cocoa

Directions:

Preheat oven to 170 degrees Celcious (340 degrees Fahrenheit). Coat loaf pan with butter and dust with flour, shake out excess flour and set aside.

Place butter in small saucepan and melt over low heat. Once melted, place in a mixing bowl, add sugar and mix well. Add eggs one at a time and mix well. Stir flour and baking powder together. Add flour and milk in small increments until incorporated. Remove 1/3 of dough to a small separate bowl, this will remain the white colored dough. To the remaining 2/3 dough, add cocoa and stir until well blended.

Place 1/2 of cocoa dough in bottom of loaf pan, add white dough, then add the remaining cocoa dough as the top layer. Take a fork and run it up and down the dough layers a couple of times to create a marbeling effect. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour 15 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Enjoy.

Chocolate and white dough, top off with chocolate dough.

Source: My Danish Kitchen

Posted in Danish, Dessert | Tagged cake, chocolate, Danish, marble cake, marmorkage | 13 Comments

13 Responses

on February 22, 2022 at 15:34 Pia Jones

I lost my mum recently . It was very sudden. Baking this cake have brought back a lot of happy memories about her and my nan ❤
- on February 22, 2022 at 18:13 mydanishkitchen
  
  I am so sorry for your loss Pia. Interesting how food can provoke memories. I am glad to hear that the Marmorkage brought back some wonderful memories of your mother and your Nan.
on September 22, 2016 at 08:31 Sid

My mom used to make this cake, and I’d forgotten how much I like it. I’ve never made it myself, but I think that’s going to change.
- on September 23, 2016 at 19:21 mydanishkitchen
  
  Sid, it was always one of my favorite cakes (I think I say that about a lot of cakes😉)
on December 23, 2010 at 11:56 torviewtoronto

delicious marble cake
happy holidays
on December 23, 2010 at 09:36 Sommer@ASpicyPerspective

Gorgeous! I bet it’s perfection since you’ve made it so many times! Merry Christmas!
on December 23, 2010 at 08:35 Julie M.

What a beautiful marbled cake. This looks perfect and I’m with you, the chocolate is worth reversing!

Have a wonderful Christmas!
on December 22, 2010 at 22:45 polwig

This marble cake looks amazing and I love how the marbles turned out, that has always been my issue with marble cake, not many marbles.
on December 22, 2010 at 14:36 Joy

That looks wonderful. I am loving this recipe.
on December 22, 2010 at 13:56 Lisa

This cake looks amazing. I love cakes that aren’t so sweet. Hope you have a wonderful Christmas Gitte (=
on December 22, 2010 at 10:27 Peanut butter and chocolate

wow, the cake loks awesome, I think I’ll ask my GF to make me one :))))
on December 21, 2010 at 10:41 staci

I need to make this! I’m with you about the more chocolate than white! Great recipe.
on December 20, 2010 at 21:53 Pachecopatty

Wonderful simple marble cake recipe, it looks so good:)