What Is Marble Cake

A perfect teatime treat enjoyed plain or with a chocolate drizzle.

What is marble 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. Most recipes for marble cake call solely for cocoa powder for the chocolate portion of the cake. This recipe starts with my favorite vanilla cake. A marble cake is a cake with a streaked or mottled appearance like marble achieved by very lightly blending light and dark batter.

This marble cake recipe features vanilla cake swirled with chocolate for a gorgeous marble effect. Chocolate and vanilla swirled together. When you re not sure whether you should make chocolate cake or vanilla cake marble cake is the answer. I like to add real chocolate as well for a more intense fudgy flavor.

A total win for everyone. Classic marble cake is a mixture of vanilla and chocolate cake that is swirled together creating a marbling effect. And here s how you can make it. Though there is a marble pound cake.

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. Helpful 38 rana z rating. This is definitely a buttercream intensive design but it is so fun to make. It s been a long time coming but i finally have a marble cake recipe to share with you.

The cake just doesn t taste like marble cake and it is pretty dry not moist at all and i even added some oil. This super easy chocolate marble cake recipe has a mocha twist adding a rich flavour. It s the best of both cake worlds. Other possibilities are strawberry or other fruit flavors or particularly in marbled coffee cakes cinnamon or other spices.

This makes the chocolate swirl portion of the cake taste almost like a brownie. The best marble cake i ve ever had. You ll love it because it s so incredibly soft and moist and. Marble cake is a wonderful old fashioned baked good as pretty as it is delicious.

I used three different types of buttercream to create a fun squiggly pattern. It was the only design that seemed to fit a marble cake in my mind. While i chose to chocolate buttercream with my marble cake this time i think cream cheese frosting would also taste great. 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.