Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a baking pan (a Bundt pan is ideal) with butter. Combine butter, 1 cup sugar, vanilla sugar, and salt, stirring well until well combined. Add one egg after another, slowly incorporating each into the batter, and then mix well. Sift the flour and baking powder together. Add 1/3 of the flour mixture into the batter followed by 1/3 of the milk, repeat until all of the flour mixture and milk has been added. Pour half of the batter into the pan.
Now make the dark (chocolate) part of the cake. In a small sauce pan, mix the water, cocoa powder, and the remaining 3 Tbsp. of sugar and bring to a boil. Allow the chocolate mixture to cool. When it has cooled, mix it into the rest of the batter, and then pour all of the chocolate batter on top of the vanilla batter in the pan. Use a fork to gently mix the two batters together to create a marble effect. (Caution- over mixing will turn the whole cake grey!)
Bake the cake on the lowest rack for about 1 hour. Use a skewer or knife to check for doneness- if it comes out clean, the cake is done. Remove the cake and let cool before turning out of pan. Finish cake by sifting confectioners' sugar all over it. Guten Appetit!
Germans love cake. It's true. When I taught English in Saarlouis, it seemed like there were at least 2 different kinds of cake in the faculty room almost every day for some occasion or another. The cake I saw (and ate) the most was Marmorkuchen, or marble cake. It's extremely popular in Germany and a nice, simple cake to make for any sort of occasion.
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9/3/2011
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