I was going through Martha Stewart’s “Baking Handbook” and was so much carried away by her cakes and pastries. I was soo much smitten by her vanilla chocolate cake and marble pattern was pretty, that I was itching to bake it. I made slight variations to her original recipe and was happy with the end result.
Ingredients
- All purpose flour- 1 cup
- Cake flour- ¾ cup
- Margarine – ½ cup (1 stick)
- Sugar – 1 cup
- Baking powder- 2 teaspoons
- Ener-G (egg replacer powder) – 3 tablespoons mixed in 4 tablespoons of warm water
- Butter milk- 2/3 cup (I curdled soymilk with a teaspoon of lemon juice)
- Vanilla extract- 1 teaspoon
- Cocoa powder- ¼ cup
- Boiling water- ¼ cup
Directions
1. Pre heat the oven to 350° F. Generously spray 9- by- 5 inch loaf pan.
2. Mix cake flour, all purpose flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
3. Beat margarine and sugar until light and fluffy in an electric mixer. Add ener-G whisked with warm water and beat for couple of minutes. Mix in vanilla extract.
4. Add flour mixture in two batches, alternating with buttermilk and beginning and ending with the flour. Set aside 1/3 of the flour.
5. In a bowl, mix the cocoa powder and boiling water with rubber spatula until smooth. Add the cocoa mixture to the reserved cake batter. Stir until well combined.
6. Spoon the batters into the prepared pan in two layers, alternating spoonfuls of vanilla and chocolate to simulate a check board.
7. To create marbling, run a table knife through the batters in swirling
motion.
8. Bake, rotating the pan half way through, until a cake tester comes out clean, 40 to 50 minutes.
9. Transfer pan to a rack to cool.
Notes
1. The original recipe called in for 3 eggs; however I used egg replacer powder only for 2 eggs.
2. 1 ¾ cups of cake flour was used in original recipe. But I used 1 cup of all purpose flour and ¾ cup of cake flour.
For another version of marble cake check vanilla chocolate- vegan marble cake.