Easy Marble Cake Recipe

This 5-ingredient cake is ready in under an hour.

By Jennifer Rinkoff | March 4, 2024

This recipe comes from the Rinkoff family, whose 100-year-old London family bakery is a British institution. The bakery was founded by Hyman Rinkoff, a Jewish Ukrainian immigrant, in 1911, and is now run by fourth- and fifth-generation family members. While the bakery has moved several times, it’s always stayed in London’s East End, where the majority of Jewish immigrants settled in the 1800s and early 1900s. Since then, most of London’s Jews have moved north, into more spacious, greener suburbs, but many happily still journey to Rinkoff’s for their nostalgic baked goods. Learn more about the fascinating history of Rinkoff bakery in this article.

Rinkoff’s Hamishe Cheesecake, the recipe for which great-grandfather Hyman brought over from Ukraine, is still the bakery’s most famous item. But their shelves are full of other delicious cakes, including celebratory layer cakes and contemporary gluten-free and vegan bakes. Still, the classics – cheesecakes, apple strudel, chocolate babka and marble cake, to name but a few – are the most beloved.

This easy marble cake recipe calls for only five ingredients, and is a simplified version of the Rinkoff Bakery’s marble cake. It’s the recipe the family bake for themselves at home, and is sure to become a staple at your house, too.

You’ll need a Bundt tin and a stand mixer or big bowl and eclectic whisk (or regular whisk, if you fancy an arm workout!) for this recipe, along with staple pantry ingredients. This five-ingredient cake comes together in an hour, and is perfect for whipping up for unexpected guests (it yields eight generous slices), or to make with kids, who will love swirling the cocoa-spiked batter into the plain yellow cake batter.