marble cake

noun

1. a cake given a streaked, marblelike appearance by the incomplete mixing of dark, especially chocolate, and light batters.

marble cake

noun

1. a cake with a marbled appearance obtained by incompletely mixing dark and light mixtures

Word History and Origins

Origin of marble cake¹

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

Example Sentences

We miss your glad smile, also your Tennessee marble cake and your slat pie.

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This can be put together like marble cake, first a spoonful of one kind, then another, until the dish is full.

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Or by coloring half the white batter pink with vegetable color to be had from any confectioner, you can have rose-marble cake.

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By baking gold and silver batter in layers, and alternating them you can have a fine marble cake.

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