Nannie's Marble Cake

kzbhansen's Note:

My granmother was German and made this cake and I have very fond memories of eating this with her at the dining room table talking away the troubles of a young girls day. LOL Lots of butter and eggs. Not a low cal low carb cake but its soooo good. I had to sit and watch her make this stopping her to trya and measure this recipe out. This makes 1 bundt cake or 6 muffins.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 30 mins
• Prep Time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Serves: 6-8

Yield: 1.0 cake

• 3/4 lb butter
• 2 1/2 cups sugar
• 6 eggs, seperated
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon lemon rind
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 3 teaspoons baking cocoa
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 tablespoons sour cream

Directions:

1. Cream together the 3/4 pounds of butter and sugar, mix well.
2. Add 6 egg yolks, and vanilla and beat well.
3. Add grated lemon rind and beat.
4. Add flour sifted with 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder.
5. Beat 6 egg whites until stiff and fold into the above mixture. Reserve 2 cups of this mixture to make the chocolate mixture.
6. Chocolate mixture:.
7. In bowl Combine 2 Tablespoons sugar, 3 heaping teaspoons cocoa, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, 2 heaping tablespoons of sour cream, and 2 cups of the above batter to make the chocolate mixture.
8. Grease bundt pan well add white batter then chocolate batter alternately until the pan is over 1/2 full.
9. Bake at 325 on lowest rack in the oven for 1 hour until brown.
10. When cooled you can frost to your liking or sprinkle with powdered sugar.
11. We ate it as is and it was wonderful.

Reviews

[Ozlem]

used yogurt instead of sour cream, and whole wheat pastry flour instead of all purpose flour.
everybody loved it, adviced that it could be better with 2 cups of sugar... thanks for sharing the recipe.

[Chef #1239346]

This is sooo easy to make. Its so amazing... My husband thinks its a too sweet... but I still give it a 5 stars!!! Thanks for sharing this wonderful recipe.

[Chef #1406276]

Followed exactly, I was nervous when it seemed more like a cookie dough, then the egg whites loosened it up TG. Made for my daughters birthday. She was thrilled. Thanks for the great recipe.