Grease and flour a 9 inch round pan.
To marble a cake.
I bake wedding cakes and have always received rave reviews for my cake flavor.
So to get started making this marble cake you ll make the vanilla cake batter.
Place flour baking powder salt sugar butter or margarine eggs vanilla and milk into mixing bowl.
Off the heat immediately add the chocolate.
Next dissolve cocoa powder into hot water.
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How to make marble cake in a small saucepan combine the cocoa powder 1 2 cup of the sugar and the water.
Bring to a simmer over high heat whisking until smooth.
How to make marble cake layers.
Butter adds the flavor you really love in a vanilla cake while oil adds the ever important moisture.
Make the vanilla cake batter.
Scoop some of your cake batter into a small bowl see recipe for details and combine with the chocolate mixture to create chocolate batter.
Using a large offset spatula smear chocolate to create a marble design in frosting.
Drop cooled chocolate by 1 2 teaspoonfuls over frosting.
Stir cocoa into the 3 4.
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.
Instead use 1 less tablespoon of flour per cup and double sift the flour.
Beat slowly to moisten then beat.
Alternate spoonfuls of vanilla and chocolate cake batter into your pans.
Frost top and sides of cake.
A combination of butter and vegetable oil are used to add both flavor and moisture to the cake.
Am baking a marble wedding cake for next weekend and cannot wait to test out this recipe.
This marble cake recipe features vanilla cake swirled with chocolate for a gorgeous marble effect.
This marble cake bakes up very moist partly due to the incorporation of sour cream.
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.
And here s how you can make it.
Place 1 cake layer on a serving plate.
Continue until you ve evenly distributed the batter between the pans.
Once both cake batters and the optional chocolate fudge ripple are made the real fun starts.
The best marble cake i ve ever had.
Whisk until the chocolate is melted and the mixture is smooth.
Top with remaining cake layer.
Spread with 1 2 cup frosting.
The cake is covered in a silky smooth whipped chocolate frosting.
Though there is a marble pound cake.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees f 175 degrees c.
