Marmarakaka

Marble cake

I know that when you think of marble cake, you don't necessarily immediately think of Iceland. But marble cake is also very popular in Iceland - and with the spices it is a beautifully Icelandic version of this cake recipe, which is around 200 years old and is now very common.


Ingredients

120 g margarine
4 eggs
240 g flour
2 tsp baking soda
140 g sugar
120 ml milk

1 tsp cardamom
2 Tbsp grated white chocolate

2 Tbsp baking cocoa
1 tsp cinnamon
2 Tbsp grated dark chocolate


Preparation

Preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C) upper/lower heat.

In a large bowl, beat the margarine and eggs until fluffy.

Add the flour, baking powder and sugar, pour in the milk...

...and process them all into a smooth dough.

Then transfer about half of the dough into another bowl.

Mix half of the dough with the cardamom and the grated white chocolate.

Mix the other half of the dough with the baking cocoa, cinnamon and grated dark chocolate.

Pour the light dough into a loaf pan lined with baking paper...

...pour the dark dough over it...

...and mix both doughs a little with a knife.

Then bake the cake at 350 °F (180 °C) upper and lower heat for about 30 minutes until the dough is nice and dry on the inside (test with a toothpick!).

Take the dough out of the oven, let it cool down and then carefully remove it from the mold.

Bon appetit!

[Translated from here.]