Nannie's Marble Cake

By ctozzi

"My granmother was German and made this cake and I have very fond memories of eating this with her at the dining room table talking away the troubles of a young girls day. LOL Lots of butter and eggs. Not a low cal low carb cake but its soooo good. I had to sit and watch her make this stopping her to trya and measure this recipe out. This makes 1 bundt cake or 6 muffins."

Ingredients

• 3/4 lb butter
• 2 1/2 cups sugar
• 6 eggs , seperated
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon lemon rind
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 3 teaspoons baking cocoa
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 tablespoons sour cream

Preparation

Step 1

Directions:

1 Cream together the 3/4 pounds of butter and sugar, mix well.

2 Add 6 egg yolks, and vanilla and beat well.

3 Add grated lemon rind and beat.

4 Add flour sifted with 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder.

5 Beat 6 egg whites until stiff and fold into the above mixture. Reserve 2 cups of this mixture to make the chocolate mixture.

6 Chocolate mixture:.

7 In bowl Combine 2 Tablespoons sugar, 3 heaping teaspoons cocoa, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, 2 heaping tablespoons of sour cream, and 2 cups of the above batter to make the chocolate mixture.

8 Grease bundt pan well add white batter then chocolate batter alternately until the pan is over 1/2 full.

9 Bake at 325 on lowest rack in the oven for 1 hour until brown.

10 When cooled you can frost to your liking or sprinkle with powdered sugar.

11 We ate it as is and it was wonderful.