Moist marble cake with homemade Nutella

This simple, juicy recipe for a marble cake with homemade Nutella is available from us today on the occasion of the World Nutella Day blog parade!

Today is February 5th – World Nutella Day! For this delicious special day, some creative food and baking bloggers have come together to celebrate the well-known and super delicious nut nougat cream with you. Of course, various recipes with Nutella are the focus of the sweet blog parade today.

For World Nutella Day, my minis and I have slightly adapted the recipe of a classic. As part of the blog parade, we bake a moist marble cake, which is refined with our homemade nut nougat cream. We made “Nutella” ourselves for the first time and followed the recipe from Backen macht glücklich , but we added nougat for more “Nutella” taste. It tastes nuttier than the original, but that didn't stop the minis from giving their “GO!” And for everyone who, like us, will miss the 5th season this year, we have beautifully decorated our marble cake for Carnival! 😉

If you feel like “something sweet with Nutella”, then let my blogger colleagues and their delicious creations sweeten your day:

• Nutella-Cupcakes by Loui Bakery
• Nutella Rolls by Meine Torteria
• Bundt cake with Nutella cheesecake filling by Ninas Backstübchen
• Nutella heart by Lindenthalerin
• Schoko Nutella Donuts by Kadis Backstüble
• Nutella Babka by Küchentraum & Purzelbaum 
• Nutella Cookies by Kleid & Kuchen
• Nutella marble waffles by Culirena
• Brownies with Nutella Frosting by Biskuitwerkstatt
• Naked Nutella Cake with cherries by Backwolke
• Chocolate granola by Vanillig
• Chocolate cake with Nutella by Tinnis Zuckerwelt

Recipe for our juicy marble cake with homemade nut nougat cream

Simple recipes are perfect for baking with children! This simple sponge cake is simply a classic! Who didn't eat a piece of delicious marble cake every now and then as a child? This cake is not only juicy and delicious, but also quick and uncomplicated and therefore serves two attributes that are a big plus point for baking with children.

Ingredients

Dough

• 250 g soft butter
• 150 g sugar
• 1 packet of vanilla sugar (15g)
• 4 eggs
• 250 g flour
• 1 packet of baking powder (15 g)
• 1 pinch of salt
• 175 ml milk
• 100 g homemade nut nougat cream (or Nutella)

Decoration

• white cake icing*
• pink cake icing*
• purple cake icing*
• yellow cake icing*

Baking accessories

Kitchen scales, mixing bowl, hand mixer, measuring cup, dough scraper, loaf pan, fork, cooling rack, saucepan and bowl for the water bath for the cake icing, teaspoon, toothpick

Preparation

In the first step we bake our juicy marble cake with nut nougat cream. We then decorate the simple sponge cake beautifully and colorfully - both inside and out - with a marble pattern.

We bake a marble cake

• Before starting the dough, grease the baking pan and preheat the oven to 175°C top/bottom heat
• Mix softened butter with a hand mixer in the mixing bowl.
• Add sugar and vanilla sugar and continue stirring
• Gradually add the eggs to the butter-sugar mixture and mix well
• Mix the flour, baking powder and salt in a separate bowl and add in portions to the butter-sugar-egg mixture and mix into a homogeneous dough
• Finally stir in the milk.

• Pour half of the dough into the loaf pan.
• Add the nut nougat cream to the half of the dough remaining in the mixing bowl and mix well.
• Then the second half - colored brown by the nut nougat cream - is poured over the light half of the dough into the loaf pan.
• Using a fork, weave the dough in waves from right to left. This creates the marble effect in the sponge cake.
• Now the marble cake is baked for approx. 50 minutes at 175°C top/bottom heat (please do a stick test as a cooking test, as ovens bake at different levels!)
• After baking, carefully tip the sponge cake out of the loaf pan onto the cooling rack and let the sponge cake cool thoroughly.

This is how you create a marbled glaze

To ensure that the icing sets (or dries) well and the cake does not “sweat”, the cake should always be completely cooled before decorating and icing.

I generally recommend that you melt chocolate or other glazes in a water bath, but the colorful melts, for example, can usually also be melted in the microwave according to the instructions.

• Melt the chocolate and the colored icing in a water bath.
• Pour the liquid white icing over the marble cake.
• Then use a teaspoon to spread generous blobs of your favorite colors onto the still liquid white icing.

• Now your child “draws” serpentine lines on the liquid glaze with a toothpick - this causes the liquid, colorful glazes to mix and creates the marble effect.
• Finally, let the icing cool and your marbled marble cake is ready and a real feast for the eyes!

To give the simple sponge cake a special WOW effect, we decorated it with homemade paper rosettes. To create these pretty paper rosettes, we marbled paper using shaving cream and liquid food coloring. Marbling with shaving foam not only produces beautiful effects, it is almost addictive and the minis had a lot of fun with the soft shaving foam 🙂

Also with regard to our currently ongoing Bake your favorite book challenge brings this colorful treat brings some carnival joy into your kitchen during the currently rather dreary external circumstances! (Our colorful mini oven Berliners and the brightly colored confetti cakes would also be wonderfully suitable for this 😉

We hope you have fun baking and marbling!

Let it be really colorful! 🙂

Yours, Lia

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