Blue And Yellow Marble Cake

Marble cake is a wonderful old fashioned baked good as pretty as it is delicious.

Blue and yellow marble cake.

To create the marble effect use a small spoon to alternate small drops of colored cake batter into the cupcake liner. Next put the cocoa sour cream and 1 cup of the batter in a separate bowl and mix it to make the chocolate batter. So it all starts out the same. 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.

For the last three days i have made marble cake after marble cake trying again and again to achieve the perfect marble. Repeat with the remaining two pans creating a green and yellow cake layer and a red and orange cake layer. Make a batch of cake batter using a box cake mix. After three long days of recipes testing and failing it occurred to me that i was going about this.

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. Repeat with remaining cake layers. The perfect looking slice of cake. We split the cake batter into four equal portions.

Then spread the plain batter in a cake pan. The first thing we re going to do is prepare a basic yellow cake batter photo above right. My best yellow cake recipe calls for lots of eggs and butter as well but about double the salt. Bake the cupcakes as directed on the cake mix box.

Tint the cake batter four different colors pink yellow purple and blue. The full length tutorial on how to make marble swirled cake pops without tossing out a ton of chocolate. Make sure you watch all the way to the end. 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. I have been going nuts this week. 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. Bake for 34 37 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

You only need 1 batter for this marble cake recipe. 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.