Traditional Marble Love Cake
Classic marble cake is a mixture of vanilla and chocolate cake that is swirled together creating a marbling effect.
Traditional marble love cake. I love marble cake. Since she s off from school for the winter break i decided that i should take off from. It s often streaked or mottled in appearance and contains more vanilla cake than chocolate. Traditional marble pound cake.
All purpose flour for the pan. Combine the ricotta mascarpone eggs sugar and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer and whisk until. Loved the marble effect. This traditional marble pound cake recipe is one of the first cakes i learned how to prepare when i was a child.
Unsalted butter for the pan. Traditional marble loaf cake january 07 2010. With chocolate sweet ricotta and a whipped pudding topping the layered italian cake is moist rich and perfect for valentine s day birthdays or any other special occasion. Unfortunately i have to work and that leaves me very little time to really have any quality time with her.
I learned to make it using a wooden spoon and a whisk. Electric handheld mixers or stand mixers were not available to me at the time. Cup white sugar. Marble cakes made their way to america with german immigrants before the civil war.
2 pints part skim ricotta cheese. Ramya kiran january 8 2010 at 12 27 am. Prepare the cake batter. To make the filling.
Directions preheat the oven according to the cake mix directions. The idea of marbling two different colored batters into a cake originated in nineteenth century germany. This italian love cake starts with a boxed cake mix for an easy dessert recipe that only looks fancy. Originally the cakes were marbled with molasses and spices.
1 12 ounce container frozen whipped topping thawed. Just before serving. Dorie greenspan s traditional marble cake dear readers i love to spend all day cuddling with my young daughter. 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.
1 18 25 ounce package chocolate cake mix. One 16 5 ounce box vanilla cake mix plus ingredients called for on the box 32 ounces part skim ricotta. A marble pound cake is called marmorkuchen in germany. 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.
I made a choc and banana marble cake at the weekend and did it in a very similar way. To make the frosting. Coat a 9 by 13 inch pan with canola oil. Spray or lightly butter two 9 inch cake pans.
Sift the cake flour baking powder and salt together in a large bowl. 1 3 9 ounce package instant chocolate pudding mix.