Place 1 cake layer on a serving plate.
Marble cake layer cake.
Next put the cocoa sour cream and 1 cup of the batter in a separate bowl and mix it to make the chocolate batter.
I chose to bake this recipe up in 3 6 inch diameter round pans but it can also be made in 2 8 inch pans or 9 inch pans or you could make it in a 9 13 inch pan just be sure to adjust the bake times as needed if you re making it differently than what you see here.
Gently set other marble cake layer on top and make sure it is centered.
It makes more batter has contains more butter and uses buttermilk for a softer crumb.
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.
Top with remaining cake layer.
Repeat with remaining cake layers.
Preheat oven to 350 f 177 c.
I ll keep it short and sweet today but i do want to fill you in on a few recipe details.
First this makes a smallish cake.
Starting with about 1 cup of chocolate buttercream scooped on top of the cake start to smooth the frosting out and over the sides of the cake.
Prep time 2 hours 20 minutes.
Keyword cake layer marble.
Cook time 30 minutes.
The filling is a chocolate swiss meringue buttercream and outside vanilla swiss meringue buttercream topped with chocolate ganache.
5 10 19 we have updated this marble cake recipe.
Chocolate and vanilla is always a safe choice and let s be honest we could all use a little of that right.
Spray or lightly butter two 9 inch cake pans.
Sift the cake flour baking powder and salt together in a large bowl.
Frost top and sides of cake.
Total time 2 hours 50 minutes.
There is enough frosting to cover this entire cake with a little left over so feel free to use a healthy amount of cover sides.
We think that you will love the new recipe.
Spread with 1 2 cup frosting.
Drop cooled chocolate by 1 2 teaspoonfuls over frosting.
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.
It is now suitable for a three layer cake.
Using a large offset spatula smear chocolate to create a marble design in frosting.
Then pop the layers into the preheated oven for 34 35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
When we adjusted our yellow cake recipe we updated this marble cake as well since it was based on our yellow cake.
With a handheld or stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment beat the butter on high speed in a large bowl until smooth and creamy about 1 minute.
The cake just doesn t taste like marble cake and it is pretty dry not moist at all and i even added some oil.