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German Marble Cake on the Sheet Pan with Cherries
German marble cake with cherries baked on a sheet pan! With grandma's traditional Bavarian marble cake recipe, you can make this Black Forest marble cake with fresh or canned cherries within minutes and it will be wonderfully juicy. The best traditional german marble cake recipe.
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Servings 12
Calories 210 kcal
Ingredients
- 200 g butter at room temperature - 3/4 cup + 2 tbsp
- 250 grams of sugar - 1 cup + 3 tbsp
- 250 grams of milk - 1 cup + 2 tbsp
- 4 eggs at room temperature
- 400 grams of cake flour - 2 1/2 cup
- 16 g cream of tartar or regular baking powder - 2 1/2 tsp
- 15 grams of cocoa powder - 1/4 cup
- 350 g pitted cherries - 2 cups pitted
Instructions
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Line a 30 x 40 cm ( 11 ¾ x 15 ¾ inch) baking sheet with parchment paper
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For the batter, cream the soft butter with the sugar until white and fluffy, then gradually add the eggs one after another and continue beating.
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Stir in the baking powder mixed with the flour and add the milk alternately with the flour.
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Spread about half of the dough evenly on the prepared lined baking sheet or use a baking frame.
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Mix the second half of the dough with the cocoa powder. Stir in a dash of milk, cream or German Egg Liqueur (See notes) into the dark batter. Now place dollops of the dark batter on top of the light batter and swirl the two batters together using a skewer.
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Dust the cherries briefly in cornstarch and spread on top of the cake.
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Bake the cake in the preheated oven at 180 C / 356 F for about 35 minutes.
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Then let cool and sprinkle with icing sugar.
Recipe Notes
If you want, add German Egg Liqueur to the batter instead of the milk