Rübli poppy seed marble cake

AUTHOR
Valentine Lee
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 5
COOK TIME
120 mins
TOTAL TIME
120 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 20
  • 1 Carrot (approx. 100 g)
  • 250 g soft butter or margarine
  • 250 g Sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 5 Eggs (size M)
  • 300 g Flour
  • 100 g crushed almonds
  • 3 TSP Baking Powder
  • 75 ml Milk
  • 250 g ready-to-bake poppy seed filling
  • 25 g Marzipan raw mass
  • 1 TABLESPOON Icing sugar + something to dust
  • 7-10 Tbsp yellow and red food colouring
  • 5 half pistachio kernels
  • 7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour
  • 7-10 Tbsp Aluminium foil

Directions

  1. 1

    Peel, wash and finely grate the carrot. Mix fat, sugar and 1 pinch of salt with the whisk of the hand mixer for 2-3 minutes until creamy. Stir in the eggs one after the other. Mix flour, 50 g almonds and baking powder, alternately stir in with milk

  2. 2

    Cut the dough in half. Stir 50 g almonds and grated carrot into one half. Stir the poppy seed filling into the other half. Place the doughs alternately in a greased and floured box form (approx. 11 x 30 cm; 1 3/4 litre capacity), spoon the dough with the handle of a tablespoon. Bake in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for approx. 1 hour (cover after approx. 40 minutes if necessary)

  3. 3

    Take the cake out of the oven, let it cool down on a cake rack for about 15 minutes, turn out of the tin. Let the cake cool down for about 2 hours. In the meantime, knead the marzipan and 1 tbsp. icing sugar, colour orange with food colouring

  4. 4

    Form 5 carrots from the marzipan, put 1/2 pistachio as "carrot green" into each. Dust the cake with icing sugar, decorate with marzipan carrots

  5. 5

    Preparation time approx. 2 hours. waiting time approx. 2 1/2 hours

  6. 6

    Picture 03: without marzipan carrots!

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
300 kcal
CARBS
31 g
FATS
17 g
PROTEINS
6 g

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