Low Calorie Irresistible German Marmorkuchen (Marble Cake)

Marmorkuchen (German marble cake) has been one of my favorite cakes while I was in Germany. This marble cake consists of delicious soft swirls of vanilla and chocolate cake. These are further covered with a crunchy roasted almond chocolate topping. Sounds yummy, doesn’t it? 😋

And it is only 124Kcal/ slice so you can enjoy it guilt-free.

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Low Calorie Irresistible German Marmorkuchen (Marble Cake)

Prep Time30 minutes mins

Active Time45 minutes mins

Total Time1 hour hr 15 minutes mins

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: German

Yield: 18 Slices

Calories: 124kcal

Author: Maria

Equipment

• Oven

Materials

The Cake

• 2 cup Wholemeal flour
• ½ cup Brown sugar
• ⅛ cup Butter
• 3 Eggs
• 2 tsp Baking powder
• 2 tbsp Cocoa powder
• ¼ cup Skimmed milk or more as needed
• 1 tsp Vanilla
• 1 Pinch Salt

The Topping (optional)

• 75 g Dark chocolate melted
• ¼ cup Roasted almonds crushed

Instructions

Preparing the cake

• Preheat oven to 200C.

  Gather your ingredients.
  
• In a large bowl, cream the butter with the sugar.
  
• Beat in the eggs and vanilla.
  
• In a seperate bowl mix the flour, baking powder and salt.

  Beat the flour mixture into the creamed mixture
  
• Add milk into the batter.
  
• Beat until you get the desired consistancy.
  
• Turn ⅓ the batter into a bowl. Stir in the cocoa powder using a rubber spatula. You might need to add more milk, if it is too dry.
  
• Turn half of the plain cake batter into a greased bundt pan. Top with cocoa batter. Then pour the remaining plain batter. Swirl the batters together using a spoon.
  
• Bake in the preheated oven for around 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

  Set aside to cool. Then invert on a wire rack till it completely cools.
  

Preparing the topping (optional)

• Pour melted dark chocolate on the cake.
  
• Sprinkle roasted crushed almonds on top.
  
• Serve and enjoy.