Blue And Yellow Marble Cake

The yellow cake batter can also be left plain to make a traditional yellow layer cake.

Blue and yellow marble cake.

My best yellow cake recipe calls for lots of eggs and butter as well but about double the salt. For the last three days i have made marble cake after marble cake trying again and again to achieve the perfect marble. A little extra vanilla or higher quality vanilla will round out the flavor as well. Then pop the layers into the preheated oven for 34 35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

After three long days of recipes testing and failing it occurred to me that i was going about this. The first thing we re going to do is prepare a basic yellow cake batter photo above right. 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. Make a batch of cake batter using a box cake mix.

Try to create the lines using one continuous motion going up and down and then side to side. You only need 1 batter for this marble cake recipe. Bake the cupcakes as directed on the cake mix box. We split the cake batter into four equal portions.

Marble cake is a wonderful old fashioned baked good as pretty as it is delicious. To make marble cake pour a box of yellow or white cake mix into a bowl and beat it with the sugar salt eggs vanilla fats milk and water for 2 minutes then stir in the flour. Next put the cocoa sour cream and 1 cup of the batter in a separate bowl and mix it to make the chocolate batter. Repeat with remaining cake layers.

Bake for 34 37 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Allow the pans to cool for 10 minutes then run an offset spatula around perimeter of the pan to separate the cake from the pan. I have been going nuts this week. Then spread the plain batter in a cake pan.

So it all starts out the same. The perfect looking slice of cake. The chocolate batter is made from the yellow batter. Next time i will use salted butter again just not so much of it and double the salt add a little extra vanilla and no extra sugar.

Tint the cake batter four different colors pink yellow purple and blue. The perfect ratio of chocolate to yellow. The full length tutorial on how to make marble swirled cake pops without tossing out a ton of chocolate.