Perfect Marble Cake

This marble cake recipe features vanilla cake swirled with chocolate for a gorgeous marble effect.

Perfect marble cake.

Place 1 cake layer on a serving plate. 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. Butter adds the flavor you really love in a vanilla cake while oil adds the ever important moisture.

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. To assemble cake place one layer of cooled marble layer on cake stand. Tips for making the best marble cake. Next dissolve cocoa powder into hot water.

Make the vanilla cake batter. It s been a long time coming but i finally have a marble cake recipe to share with you. Scoop some of your cake batter into a small bowl see recipe for details and combine with the chocolate mixture to create chocolate batter. Simply add 1 tbsp of lemon juice or vinegar to 1 cup of whole milk.

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. You can make your own buttermilk if you don t any. Drop cooled chocolate by 1 2 teaspoonfuls over frosting. Top with remaining cake layer.

And here s how you can make it. The cake just doesn t taste like marble cake and it is pretty dry not moist at all and i even added some oil. A combination of butter and vegetable oil are used to add both flavor and moisture to the cake. So to get started making this marble cake you ll 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. How to make marble cake step 1. Marble cake is a wonderful old fashioned baked good as pretty as it is delicious. Using a large offset spatula smear chocolate to create a marble design in 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. The best marble cake i ve ever had. The cake is covered in a silky smooth whipped chocolate frosting.