Hi All,

I made my first marbled cake last night and I am not pleased with the outcome.

I used the DH marble cake mix and followed the instructions to the letter.

The part that I'm not pleased with is the actual marbling part. I spooned the chocolate batter over the yellow then mixed with a butter knife. Still when it came out of the oven it looked as if most of the chocolate was still on the top of the cake.

I haven't cut into it yet to see, but I'm wondering if anyone has a tried and true technique to get the chocolate batter down into the yellow batter to give it that true marbled look.

Any help would be appreciated. I'm very frustrated with this product right now and I always loved the concept so I want to be able to do this.

Thanks in advance,
Sharon

Sharon,
I do marble cakes alot. I've found that when you swirl the batter with your knife (or whatever tool your using) - if you sometimes press the knife into the batter in a downward motion as well as a sideways motion - it gets the batter mixed down into the cake good.

The technique I use and find to work the best for me is to do alternating globs of choc then vanilla batter into my pan for the first layer then drop the opposite flavor (vanilla on top of the choc, etc.) in a second layer alternating like that with the remaining batter. THEN I take my knife or flat spatula and swirl the batter together. It seems like a lot but it really isn't once you start doing it. I usually will take one batter and drop down the blobs leaving space in between and then take the next flavor batter and fill in the bare spots (for the first layer) just so it's a little quicker then switching between the two bowls of batter - ok, hope that make some kind of sense! Kind of a long explanation! LoL

hi. my sister in law ordered a candy sheet that was cut to wrap around a cake. what is that called? it was a chocolate candy on a thin sheet.

Jandy,
I think you may have pressed the wrong button. Press the "New Topic" buttong and post your question again. Welcome to CC. Your going to love it.

To marble a cake, I fill the pan about 1/4 full with vanilla batter, add the choc. globs, top with vanilla batter to the full line-then swirl, works great!!

I'm so happy that someone else has had a problem with marble cake. I have a wedding cake next weekend and the bride wants the whole cake to be vanilla and chocolate swirled. I tried a practice cake today and wasn't pleased with the results. I am going to bake another tonight and try layering the batter as suggested on here.
Thanks for always having the answers before I even ask the questions!!