Marble Cake Recipe

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Ingredients for Marble Cake Recipe

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 cup vegetable shortening
  • 3½ cups flour
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 cup milk
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder
  • 2 tablespoons molasses
  • 2 tablespoons melted chocolate
  • 1 teaspoon powdered cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon grated nutmeg
  • ½ teaspoon powdered allspice
  • 1 teaspoon salt

Instructions

  1. Cream vegetable shortening, add gradually the sugar, yolks of eggs beaten until thick, flour, salt, baking powder, milk, and egg whites beaten to stiff froth.
  2. Mix carefully and to one-third the mixture add spices, molasses, and melted chocolate.
  3. Drop in vegetable shorteninged cake pan alternately a spoonful of each mixture, and draw spoon through once or twice to make colors lie in lines.
  4. Bake in moderately hot oven one hour.
  5. Sufficient for one medium-sized cake.

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