How to Bake Marble Spice Cake
Serves: 10
Preparation time: 40 mins
Cooking time: 50 mins
Ingredients needed to make Marble Spice Cake:
- 3 ¾ cups cake flour
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 3 tsp baking powder
- ¾ cup milk
- 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
- 3 tbsp unsulphured molasses
- 3 eggs, at room temperature
- 1 tsp grated nutmeg
- 1 ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground cloves
Cooking instructions for Marble Spice Cake:
- Grease one 12 cup bundt pan with a knob of softened butter and dust it with flour generously; tap its sides to get rid of any excess.
- Place a rack midway within an oven and warm it up to 350 degrees F.
- Stir the baking powder into the cake flour until mixed well and set aside
- Place the butter in a large mixing bowl and cream it medium speed using an electric mixer, until it turns light and fluffs up.
- Whisk in the sugar, followed by a dash of salt until all of them blend into the creamed butter thoroughly and continue to beat for 5 more minutes to lighten it up further.
- Crack the eggs into it, one by one, and beat them into the mixture every time until they blend together to form a fluffy, smooth mixture.
- Sift ½ of the dry mixture into this whisked blend and fold them together until well combined.
- Beat in milk gradually until it blends thoroughly and fold in rest of the dry mixture until they are mixed properly into a uniform, smooth batter.
- Continue to beat the final batter briefly for about 10 seconds and pour half of it in a separate bowl.
- Stir in a dash each of spices as well as the molasses into one portion of the batter until mixed well.
- Spoon 2 tbsp of plain batter into the prepared pan, followed by equal spoonfuls of the spiced-up batter.
- Repeat the process until both the batters are used up, while running the knife through them haphazardly to give them marbled patterns.
- Bake the marble cake for 50 minutes or until it appears fluffy and is baked through.
- Remove from oven and set aside to cool in the mould for 5 minutes.
- Flip it over onto a rack and allow the cake to cool further to room temperature.
- Slice and serve.
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