Desserts

Marzipan – Cocoa Cake

by Editorial Staff

Summary

Prep Time 20 mins
Total Time 20 mins
Course Baking
Cuisine European
Servings (Default: 1)

Ingredients

  • 270 g butter
  • 110 g marzipan
  • 100 g powdered suar
  • 1 packet vanilla sugar
  • 0.5 ½ lemon (s), grated zest
  • 5 egg (s), separated
  • 110 g flour
  • 80 g cornstarch
  • 7 g bakin powder
  • 1 tablespoon cocoa powder, heaped
  • 50 ml amaretto
  • Fat and breadcrumbs for the mold
  • Icing sugar for dusting
Marzipan – Cocoa Cake
Marzipan – Cocoa Cake

Instructions

  1. Beat the egg whites until stiff, add 2/3 of the sugar and beat a little more.
  2. Mix the soft butter with the soft, finely chopped marzipan, the remaining powdered sugar and the vanilla sugar until creamy, gradually stir in the egg yolks. Stir in the flour mixed with baking powder and starch with 25 ml of amaretto, then fold in the egg whites.
  3. Pour half of the dough into a well-greased Gugelhupf tin, sprinkled with breadcrumbs. Stir the cocoa powder and the remaining amaretto into the remaining dough, pour the dough onto the light dough in the form and smooth it out.
  4. Bake the cake in a preheated oven at 160 ° for about 45 minutes (stick test). Sprinkle the cooled cake with powdered sugar.
Editorial Staff

About Editorial Staff

The Boss Kitchen editorial staff oversees content review, fact-checking, and recipe verification across the site. Published articles pass through the editorial team before going live, ensuring ingredient lists, techniques, cooking times, and nutritional claims hold up in a home kitchen. The team coordinates contributions across the site writers, handles reader corrections, and maintains consistency in measurement conventions, safety guidance, and dietary labeling. Posts under this byline typically represent team-reviewed reference material, site announcements, or editorial roundups rather than individual-author features, and they are held to the same sourcing standards as bylined recipe and product coverage.

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