Looks classic, this marble cake in bundt cake form.
But unlike grandma's traditional recipe, this marble cake is low-carb-friendly.
Marble cake
* is one of the
classics from grandma's bakery
.
If you bake a marble cake today, you feel like you've been transported back to childhood.
How can you not like marble cake either?
Light and chocolate dough are combined in one form and result in a wonderful pattern.
Even more beautiful is a marble cake when in a
ring cake
baked and - a - as in our recipe
coated chocolate icing
is.
However, the classic does not necessarily belong to the low-calorie cakes.
Baking low-carb: Simply replace ingredients like sugar and flour
So this recipe comes in handy: It is
low carb
and does
not require conventional sugar or flour
.
This means that even if you are currently watching your figure and carbohydrate intake, you can access this cake without a guilty conscience.
The recipe shows that delicious pastries don't have to be carbohydrate bombs.
It is also suitable for
diabetics
and people with
gluten intolerance
.
Instead of conventional flour, we use soy flour and instead of sugar we use xylitol, also as birch sugar
known.
This sweetener has 40 percent fewer calories than sugar, but tastes just as sweet.
Those with a sweet tooth will get their money's worth anyway: Dark chocolate can be found in the chocolate dough as well as in the chocolate icing that wraps the marble cake at the end.
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Recipe for low-carb, sugar-free marble cake: these are the ingredients you need
Ingredients for 1 bundt pan (18 cm diameter):
some butter for the mold
4 eggs
salt
50 g butter (room temperature)
125 g xylitol
100 g soy flour
2 teaspoons of locust bean gum
3 teaspoons of baking powder
80 g dark chocolate (at least 80% cocoa content)
1 tbsp milk
Also delicious:
low-carb cheesecake - light indulgence made from just four ingredients.
How to bake the low carb marble cake without sugar
Preheat the
oven to
180 ° C top / bottom
heat.
Grease the bundt pan with butter.
Separate the
eggs
and beat
the
egg
whites with a pinch of
salt
until stiff.
Beat the egg yolks with the
butter
and
xylitol
with the hand mixer for 3-4 minutes until creamy.
Mix
soy flour
with
carob flour
and
baking powder
, sift this mixture to the egg mixture and stir it thoroughly.
Now carefully fold in the egg whites in several portions.
Pour half of the batter into the Gugelhupf pan and smooth it out.
In a small saucepan, melt 30 g of
dark chocolate
with the
milk over
low heat and add this to the rest of the batter.
Place the chocolate dough on top of the light dough in the mold and use a fork to pull through the layers of dough in a figure of eight to create the typical pattern.
Bake the cake in the oven for about
50 minutes
.
Take the fully baked marble cake out of the oven, let it cool in the pan for 15 minutes, then overturn it and let it cool completely on a wire rack.
For the
chocolate icing,
chop and melt the remaining chocolate (50 g) over a hot water bath and let it cool down briefly.
Finally, pour the liquid chocolate over the marble cake and let it set.
If you like it fruity, you can also add a few sour cherries or raspberries to the batter.
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Tips and recipes for low-carb baking
Acquired a taste?
Petra Hola-Schneider aka “Holla die Kochfee” presents many great recipes and the knowledge she has gathered about baking with low carbohydrates in her book “Low Carb - The ingenious baking book: All doughs step by step, delicious creations from sweet to savory”.
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