To Marble A Cake

The cake is covered in a silky smooth whipped chocolate frosting.

To marble a cake.

And here s how you can make it. Butter adds the flavor you really love in a vanilla cake while oil adds the ever important moisture. Drop cooled chocolate by 1 2 teaspoonfuls over frosting. Place 1 cake layer on a serving plate.

Once both cake batters and the optional chocolate fudge ripple are made the real fun starts. Whisk until the chocolate is melted and the mixture is smooth. Spread with 1 2 cup frosting. Classic marble cake is a mixture of vanilla and chocolate cake that is swirled together creating a marbling effect.

This marble cake recipe features vanilla cake swirled with chocolate for a gorgeous marble effect. Since cake flour is so expensive i do not use it. Grease and flour a 9 inch round pan. I m a big fan of using sour cream in baking recipes as you might already know from my sour cream banana bread sour cream coffee cake with cinnamon ripple and rhubarb sour cream coffee cake these are some of my favorite recipes.

Top with remaining cake layer. Beat slowly to moisten then beat. Though there is a marble pound cake. This marble cake bakes up very moist partly due to the incorporation of sour cream.

Am baking a marble wedding cake for next weekend and cannot wait to test out this recipe. How to make marble cake in a small saucepan combine the cocoa powder 1 2 cup of the sugar and the water. Place flour baking powder salt sugar butter or margarine eggs vanilla and milk into mixing bowl. Make the vanilla cake batter.

How to make a marble cake to create a marbled effect with your cake batter you first need to make your white or yellow cake batter. Stir cocoa into the 3 4. Frost top and sides of cake. Instead use 1 less tablespoon of flour per cup and double sift the flour.

Scoop some of your cake batter into a small bowl see recipe for details and combine with the chocolate mixture to create chocolate batter. I bake wedding cakes and have always received rave reviews for my cake flavor. This recipe is years in the making in fact i wanted to publish a marble cake in my first cookbook but couldn t perfect a recipe in time. It s often streaked or mottled in appearance and contains more vanilla cake than chocolate.

A combination of butter and vegetable oil are used to add both flavor and moisture to the cake. Alternate spoonfuls of vanilla and chocolate cake batter into your pans. Preheat oven to 350 degrees f 175 degrees c. Bring to a simmer over high heat whisking until smooth.

Off the heat immediately add the chocolate. How to make marble cake layers. It s been a long time coming but i finally have a marble cake recipe to share with you. Using a large offset spatula smear chocolate to create a marble design in frosting.

So to get started making this marble cake you ll make the vanilla cake batter.