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Lemon and Cocoa Marble Cake
Make Lemon and Cocoa Marble Cake from Yza dolce with 14 ingredients and 16 clear steps.
Prep time
25 min
Cook time
35 min
Total time
1 hr 15 min
Yield
10
Ingredients
13
Steps
16
Filed under: cake, baking, over 1 hour, citrus, chocolate, lemon.
Source channel: Yza dolce
Key ingredients
CAKE BATTER, eggs, pinch salt, vanilla sugar, sugar.
Ingredients
- CAKE BATTER
- 3 eggs
- 1 pinch salt
- 8 g vanilla sugar
- 120 g sugar
- Finely grated lemon zest
- 100 g neutral oil
- 4 g baking powder
- 380 g plain flour
- 1 tbsp additional plain flour
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
- DECORATION
- Melted chocolate, as needed
- Walnuts, chopped, as needed
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F).
- Grease and line a cake tin.
- Whisk the eggs, salt, vanilla sugar and sugar until combined.
- Add the lemon zest and oil.
- Mix until smooth.
- Combine the 380 g flour with the baking powder.
- Add the dry ingredients gradually to form a thick batter.
- Divide the batter evenly between two bowls.
- Mix the additional tablespoon of flour into one portion.
- Mix the cocoa powder into the other portion.
- Spoon alternating portions of vanilla and cocoa batter into the tin.
- Swirl gently with a skewer to create a marble pattern.
- Bake for 30–35 minutes, until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
- Leave the cake in the tin for 10 minutes.
- Transfer to a wire rack and cool completely.
- Decorate with melted chocolate and chopped walnuts.