These easy marble mini cakes are a fun personal size, a marble of chocolate and vanilla cake, and made quickly in 30 minutes. These cakes are light with no oil, and perfect for any holiday or just for fun.
Grease each cocotte or cake pan with butter and dust with cocoa powder. Or whatever pan you are using.
Into a large mixing bowl, add the lemon juice and milk, and set aside for 10 minutes to activate.
Make the Vanilla Cake Batter
Add the sugar to wet ingredients and stir by hand for one minute.
½ cup cane sugar, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, ½ cup almond milk, ¼ cup applesauce, unsweetened, 1 teaspoon vanilla
Add the dry ingredients and use a hand mixer to combine.
1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda, pinch of salt
Make the Chocolate Cake Batter
Remove 1 cup of the vanilla batter and combine it with the chocolate ingredients, hand-mixing until you have a smooth batter.
1 cup vanilla cake batter, 2 tablespoon cocoa powder, 1 tablespoon apple sauce
Make the Marble Cake
Pour the vanilla batter into each cocotte or cake pan until ½ filled. Swirl in chocolate batter into each cocotte until each cocotte is ¾ filled. Or do the same whatever pan you are using.
Put the cocottes or cake pans uncovered directly onto the oven rack in the middle of the oven. Bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick pulls clean.
Let the cakes cool in their pans until ready to remove. Use a sharp knife to run around the edges of each cocotte or serve directly in the cooled pot.
Notes
Make sure you measure the flour correctly. I use the fluff and level method - use a fork to fluff up the flour in the bag, spoon the flour you need into measuring cups and level them off exactly with a knife that is perpendicular to the top of the cup.Make sure the wet ingredients are at room temperature.Don't over swirl the vanilla and chocolate batter - you don't want to blend the two flavors, you want a design.