Marble cake with cherries

Marble cake with cherries

This juicy marble cake not only has a beautiful marbling, but also juicy, delicious cherries. You will love this cake!

INGREDIENTS (For a Bundt cake pan Ø 24 cm)

375 g soft butter
300 g sugar
7 eggs (size M)
a little butter for the pan
150 g cornstarch
225 g wheat flour (type 405)
3 tsp baking powder
50 g cocoa powder
4 – 6 tbsp milk
1 jar of morello cherries (drained weight: 350 g)
100 g cake glaze (whole milk)

PREPARATION

Step 1
Grease a Bundt cake pan (Ø 24 cm) with butter and dust with flour. Separate the eggs.  For the batter, beat the soft butter, half of the sugar and the 7 egg yolks with the hand mixer until fluffy. In a second bowl, beat the egg whites and the other half of the sugar until stiff.

Step 2
Mix the cornstarch, baking powder and flour well together and sieve into the butter-sugar mixture and stir. Carefully fold in the egg whites with the dough scraper. Pour half of the mixture into the Bundt cake tin. Leave the rest of the dough in the bowl.

Step 3
For the dark dough, mix the cocoa powder and milk and mix into the other half of the batter. Drain the morello cherries in a sieve and place the cherries on the dark dough. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees (fan oven: 160 degrees). Use a fork to mix the dough in a figure of eight to ensure that the cherries are well mixed into the dough. Then bake the cake in the preheated oven for approx. 60 minutes.

4th step
After baking, let the cake cool for half an hour and then turn it out onto a cake rack. After the marble cake has cooled completely, pour a light cake glaze over the cake. To do this, melt the cake glaze in a water bath for about 10 minutes.