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