Perfect Marble Cake

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

Perfect marble cake. Using a large offset spatula smear chocolate to create a marble design in frosting. How to make marble cake step 1. Next dissolve cocoa powder into hot water. This marble cake recipe features vanilla cake swirled with chocolate for a gorgeous marble effect.

Tips for making the best marble cake. Scoop some of your cake batter into a small bowl see recipe for details and combine with the chocolate mixture to create chocolate batter. Place 1 cake layer on a serving plate. Make the vanilla cake batter.

I am very disappointed in this recipe i will not use it again and i will have to keep looking for a good marble cake. A combination of butter and vegetable oil are used to add both flavor and moisture to the cake. Drop cooled chocolate by 1 2 teaspoonfuls over frosting. The idea of marbling two different colored batters into a cake originated in nineteenth century germany then made its way to america with german immigrants before the civil war.

Butter adds the flavor you really love in a vanilla cake while oil adds the ever important moisture. You should not have needed to level these cakes but in the small change that you did now would be the time to do so cover in about 1 2 cup can use more if desired of chocolate buttercream and smooth out with an offset spatula. And here s how you can make it. You can make your own buttermilk if you don t any.

So to get started making this marble cake you ll make the vanilla cake batter. Frost top and sides of cake. Classic marble cake is a mixture of vanilla and chocolate cake that is swirled together creating a marbling effect. Simply add 1 tbsp of lemon juice or vinegar to 1 cup of whole milk.

Top with remaining cake layer. The cake just doesn t taste like marble cake and it is pretty dry not moist at all and i even added some oil. Chill your cake layers in the freezer for about 20 minutes before assembling the cake to make it easier to stack and frost. Marble cake is a wonderful old fashioned baked good as pretty as it is delicious.

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 been a long time coming but i finally have a marble cake recipe to share with you. 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.