marble cake !
Sep 01, 2022
1 minute
The very first marble cakes appeared in Germany in the 1800s, when molasses and spice (and all things nice, presumably) were gently mixed through a yellow yeast bread to create swirls of light and dark dough. Pretty soon bakers cake—so-named after the German and Yiddish word for ‘marble’—was born. Early German immigrants to the United States took the cake with them, and there it took on even more adventurous flavours. Sometimes the dark swirls had raisins and currants added to them, or included a mix of cloves, cinnamon, mace and nutmeg. For some time, cochineal—a natural reddish food dye obtained from bugs (and still used today)—was used as a vibrant colouring agent. Almond
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