You only need 1 batter for this marble cake recipe.
Green and yellow marble cake.
It makes more batter has contains more butter and uses buttermilk for a softer crumb.
My best yellow cake recipe calls for lots of eggs and butter as well but about double the salt.
Then pop the layers into the preheated oven for 34 35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
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.
I have been going nuts this week.
For the last three days i have made marble cake after marble cake trying again and again to achieve the perfect marble.
There are two ways to make a marble effect.
How to create the marble effect for pound cake.
The first thing we re going to do is prepare a basic yellow cake batter photo above right.
When baking yellow cake use shiny pans which reflect heat.
A little extra vanilla or higher quality vanilla will round out the flavor as well.
Make the swirl with the green and yellow batter in the bowl and then transfer to the cake pan.
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.
This is important for a novelty or shaped pan such as a heart or star which can be an odd size.
Dark pans and pans with nonstick coating absorb heat faster than shiny pans and can cause cakes to brown too quickly.
We think that you will love the new recipe.
The chocolate batter is made from the yellow batter.
After three long days of recipes testing and failing it occurred to me that i was going about this.
Tips for baking a perfect cake.
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.
Try to create the lines using one continuous motion going up and down and then side to side.
The only way i have ever done it is to make a yellow cake mix and a chocolate and just swirl them together in the pan so that it is mixed together a little.
Fill cake pans half full of batter.
The yellow cake batter can also be left plain to make a traditional yellow layer cake.
When we adjusted our yellow cake recipe we updated this marble cake as well since it was based on our yellow cake.
It is now suitable for a three layer cake.
Sounds weird especially since i always thought marble cake was just a mix of yellow and choc cake.
The perfect ratio of chocolate to yellow.
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.
Then spread the plain batter in a cake pan.
Make the swirl with the green and yellow batter inside the cake pan.
Repeat with remaining cake layers.
Repeat with the remaining two pans creating a green and yellow cake layer and a red and orange cake layer.
I usually pour a cup or so of the yellow in one spot and then a cup or so of the choc on top of that.
I am not sure about that herseys idea.