Marble Cake - Miele Combi Steam Oven Recipe

"Marmorkuchen"

SEE REVIEW BELOW

AND BONUS CHOCOLATE GLAZE RECIPE!

55 minute baking program
Use a 8" Bundt cake pan

Dough

• 250 g butter, soft
• 200 g sugar
• 1 packet vanilla sugar (1 Tbsp.)
• 1 pinch salt
• 4 large eggs
• 375 g pastry flour
• 125 g corn starch
• 1 packet Dr. Oetker Backpulver OR 
• 2 tsp. cream of tartar + 1 tsp. baking soda
• 125 mL milk
• 30 g Dutch process cocoa powder
• 2-3 Tbsp milk
• 50 g sugar
• 1 Tbsp rum
• Butter to grease pan

Recipe

1. Cream the butter, sugar, vanilla sugar, and salt until light and airy. Add the eggs one by one and mix until frothy.
2. Combine the flour, corn starch, and baking soda in a medium bowl.
3. Add the flour mixture into the butter mixture, alternating with the 125 mL milk, until all are added. Makes a fairly stiff cake batter.
4. Grease the cake pan, and pour in 2/3 of the dough. 
5. Combine the remaining third of the dough with sugar, cocoa powder, and rum, adding enough milk so that it is the same texture as the white dough.
6. Pour the chocolate dough into the pan. Use a fork to stir swirls into the white cake by scooping from the bottom (this video shows it well).

Baking Program

AUTO MASTERCHEF >> CAKES/PASTRIES >> MARBLE CAKE >> BAKE

Choose desired level of browning (I recommend 1 or 2 at the most)

Review

Looked good, smelled good, but strangely dense and crumbly. I've varied so many factors that I can't tell if it's the US butter, the pastry flour, or the bakenpulver. Or perhaps they like a denser, drier cake in Germany? I also have had difficulty creaming butter later, I think because we keep the house at 68 F. I will use the steam oven in future to soften the butter more.

Bonus Chocolate Glaze Recipe

2 Tbsp butter, soft
2 c. powdered sugar
2 Tbsp. cocoa
1 tsp.  vanilla extract
2-3 Tbsp. milk

Cream the butter and add the powdered sugar and cocoa. Add the vanilla extract. Add in milk until it is a pour-able consistency.