Blue And Yellow Marble Cake

Tint the cake batter four different colors pink yellow purple and blue.

Blue and yellow marble 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. Next put the cocoa sour cream and 1 cup of the batter in a separate bowl and mix it to make the chocolate batter. Bake the cupcakes as directed on the cake mix box. A little extra vanilla or higher quality vanilla will round out the flavor as well.

Marble cake is a wonderful old fashioned baked good as pretty as it is delicious. To create the marble effect use a small spoon to alternate small drops of colored cake batter into the cupcake liner. Try to create the lines using one continuous motion going up and down and then side to side. 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.

Bake for 34 37 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. 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. The first thing we re going to do is prepare a basic yellow cake batter photo above right. After three long days of recipes testing and failing it occurred to me that i was going about this.

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. My best yellow cake recipe calls for lots of eggs and butter as well but about double the salt. Then spread the plain batter in a cake pan. Make sure you watch all the way to the end.

You only need 1 batter for this marble cake recipe. Repeat with the remaining two pans creating a green and yellow cake layer and a red and orange cake layer. So it all starts out the same. I have been going nuts this week.

The perfect looking slice of cake. The yellow cake batter can also be left plain to make a traditional yellow layer cake. We split the cake batter into four equal portions. Make a batch of cake batter using a box cake mix.

The chocolate batter is made from the yellow batter. Repeat with remaining cake layers. The perfect ratio of chocolate to yellow.