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A marble cake is a cake with a streaked or mottled appearance (like marble) achieved by very lightly blending light and dark batter. It can be a mixture of vanilla and chocolate cake in which case it is mainly vanilla with streaks of chocolate. Other possibilities are strawberry or other fruit flavors or (particularly in marbled coffee cakes) cinnamon and/or other spices.The first print references to marble cake begin appearing in the last quarter of the 19th century.
