Chocolate/vanilla Marble Cake Recipe
Baking By SCPATTICAKESCREACTIONS Updated 28 Dec 2006 , 3:17pm by bobwonderbuns
Please help me with a recipe for a chocolate/vanilla marble cake. I prefer to bake from scratch. This will be for a sheet cake. You all are always such a great help!! Thanks!
I am bumping myself because I am pretty deperate and it is my birthday!!
You can use any chocolate and white cake batter you want (mix or from scratch).
What makes a marble cake is how you put the batter in the pan.
Here is an alternative to the marble cake....the zebra cake:
http://cakefun.blogspot.com/2005/08/zebra-cake_25.html
Thanks reenie and luv2cake that Zebra cake looks really interesting...this cake is for a 5oth wedding anniversary party so I might wait and try it for a birthday or something...one more question is you all know....what is emulsifer? I assume that recipe is from the UK.
I use a white cake batter (any will do) and about 6 TBSP chocolate batter (You can use more if you like) -- fill the pan with the white batter, drop the chocolate batter in 6 different spots away from each other in the white batter and take a toothpick and swirl the chocolate into the white (not the white into the chocolate or it disappears.) I like to make little swirls or starburst patterns. Then bake as you normally would until it tests clean and voila -- a marble cake!!!
Thanks so much!! Do you add chocolate to your white batter or do you make a separate choc. recipe and combine them?? I am afraid that adding cocoa powder to a recipe will dry it out... but not sure how much melted choc I would add without changing how the recipe would bake... following me?? LOL
Thanks so much!! Do you add chocolate to your white batter or do you make a separate choc. recipe and combine them?? I am afraid that adding cocoa powder to a recipe will dry it out... but not sure how much melted choc I would add without changing how the recipe would bake... following me?? LOL
I make a separate chocolate cake batter from my white cake batter. With the rest of the chocolate and white cake batters I make other cakes for friends and family (so I can practice my techniques on them). Now, my chocolate cake batter is oil-based and because of that I use unsweetened cocoa powder in it. I've never used a melted chocolate in a cake batter, although I know many who have. It's not my particular preference. You can just as easily buy a DH chocolate cake mix and doctor that up and use that batter -- it would work just as well.
Okay... yeah, that's my issue... don't make enough cakes to have left over to use or for it to be worth it time or moneywise to make up two scratch batters for one cake... I absolutely don't want to use mixes.. I am aiming to be all scratch and this marble is giving me grief. LOL
Tried a couple "marble" recipes, but they were no good. I had to resort to mix on my last order and was really hoping to avoid it this time.
Maybe I'll just try my white and/or yellow and add the chocolate and see what happens... there is powder and melted choc in my choc recipe.. so maybe a little of both will work... LOL I am not that knowledgeable on the science of baking... so guess all I cn do is give it a whirl.
Thanks for your input!!
A tip on scratch cakes -- use an oil-based cake, not a butter-based cake and you are assured of a moist cake. (Don't ask me how I know that... 
) These are not easy recipes to find, but when you do, guard them with your life!!! 
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