To Marble A Cake

Am baking a marble wedding cake for next weekend and cannot wait to test out this recipe.

To marble a cake.

Top with remaining cake layer. A combination of butter and vegetable oil are used to add both flavor and moisture to the cake. 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. Once both cake batters and the optional chocolate fudge ripple are made the real fun starts.

Continue until you ve evenly distributed the batter between the pans. Alternate spoonfuls of vanilla and chocolate cake batter into your pans. The best marble cake i ve ever had. Frost top and sides of cake.

It s been a long time coming but i finally have a marble cake recipe to share with you. Preheat oven to 350 degrees f 175 degrees c. 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. Make the vanilla cake batter.

Place 1 cake layer on a serving plate. Drop cooled chocolate by 1 2 teaspoonfuls over frosting. It s often streaked or mottled in appearance and contains more vanilla cake than chocolate. Off the heat immediately add the chocolate.

So to get started making this marble cake you ll make the vanilla cake batter. Grease and flour a 9 inch round pan. Instead use 1 less tablespoon of flour per cup and double sift the flour. This marble cake bakes up very moist partly due to the incorporation of sour cream.

And here s how you can make it. Beat slowly to moisten then beat. I bake wedding cakes and have always received rave reviews for my cake flavor. Classic marble cake is a mixture of vanilla and chocolate cake that is swirled together creating a marbling effect.

Since cake flour is so expensive i do not use it. Spread with 1 2 cup frosting. Place flour baking powder salt sugar butter or margarine eggs vanilla and milk into mixing bowl. Using a large offset spatula smear chocolate to create a marble design in frosting.

This marble cake recipe features vanilla cake swirled with chocolate for a gorgeous marble effect. Though there is a marble pound cake. How to make marble cake layers. Butter adds the flavor you really love in a vanilla cake while oil adds the ever important moisture.

Next dissolve cocoa powder into hot water. How to make marble cake in a small saucepan combine the cocoa powder 1 2 cup of the sugar and the water. The cake is covered in a silky smooth whipped chocolate frosting. 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.

Bring to a simmer over high heat whisking until smooth.