Gluten Free Chocolate Marble Cake

I had  planned on sharing this gluten free chocolate marble cake last week for my Martha Stewart Cakes the gluten free way series, but life got busy and I did not get it done. And I am even posting it a bit late this week.

I am really enjoying this series of baking through Martha Stewart Cakes, making them gluten free. When I first started this series I had intended to share a weekly recipe and I have done that pretty regularly since October, but I am struggling to keep up that schedule.

Is it possible to get tired of cake?!

My family really is not tired of cake, but with all the other gluten free baking I do, plus regular everyday life and cooking, working on a gluten free cake a week is proving to be quite a challenge. Especially when I often need to try several times to get a gluten free version just right.

I don’t want to give up this series though. I am enjoying it too much for that. So, I am going to continue the series and continue baking my way through the cookbook, but I may not post a weekly recipe. I am going to just post them as I make and adapt them to gluten free. That may be weekly or it may be once or twice a month. I am just going to share them as I have time.

Now for this week’s cake. It was delicious!

This was a cake my family loved. I did change the recipe some though. The original recipe called for a lot of ginger. I did not have fresh ginger and the combination of ginger and chocolate was one I was not sure about, so I skipped the ginger. It worked find and made it more of a classic marble cake without it.

The original recipe also had a glaze on the cake. I left the glaze off and we still really enjoyed it. If you want to put a simple chocolate glaze on it, I am sure it would be delicious that way as well.

Besides those two things I kept the rest of the recipe basically the same. I used cornstarch and sweet rice flour in this because those almost always work well in gluten free cakes. They help give them a light texture and in this they worked well.

I will also add that my marble cakes never look like marble cakes do in the pictures. Mine are never even and never pretty. I think I may need to work on my swirling it together technique. Taste is what is important though and the taste on this is great.

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Yield: 2 loaves

Gluten Free Chocolate Marble Cake

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Gluten Free Chocolate Marble Cake is a dessert so good that no one will know that it is gluten free.

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 55 minutes

Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 1/4 cups rice flour
• 1 cup cornstarch
• 3/4 cup sweet rice flour
• 1  1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 4 ounces bitter sweet chocolate, chopped (be sure it is gluten free)
• 2 cups sugar
• 6 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup sour cream

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Grease 2- 9x5 inch loaf pans.
3. In a bowl mix together rice flour, cornstarch, sweet rice flour, xanthan gum, salt, baking, and baking soda. Set aside.
4. Melt chocolate and let cool slightly.
5. With a mixer cream butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. This will take 4-5 minutes.
6. Add eggs one at a time beating well after each addition.
7. Add vanilla.
8. Add flour in three batches, alternating with sour cream. Beat just until incorporated.
9. Add half of the batter to the chocolate mixture.
10. Drop in pan alternating between chocolate batter and regular batter.
11. Drag a knife through the batter and swirl batter slightly.
12. Bake for 55-60 minutes or until toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

20

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 317Total Fat: 15gSaturated Fat: 9gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 88mgSodium: 272mgCarbohydrates: 43gFiber: 1gSugar: 23gProtein: 4g

Nutritional values are approximate and aren't always accurate.