This marble cake recipe features vanilla cake swirled with chocolate for a gorgeous marble effect.
Marble cake with chocolate filling.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and butter and flour or spray with baking spray 2 8 round baking pans.
You should not have needed to level these cakes but in the small change that you did now would be the time to do so cover in about 1 2 cup can use more if desired of chocolate buttercream and smooth out with an offset spatula.
However you could totally use a vanilla frosting as well.
The cake is moist flavorful and easy to put together.
Drop cooled chocolate by 1 2 teaspoonfuls over frosting.
To assemble cake place one layer of cooled marble layer on cake stand.
The final step is covering your marble cake in homemade chocolate buttercream frosting.
Classic marble cake is a mixture of vanilla and chocolate cake that is swirled together creating a marbling effect.
Top with remaining cake layer.
In a large bowl sift the flour sugar cocoa baking powder baking soda and salt.
Frost top and sides of cake.
Surprisingly you don t need two completely different batters to make marble cake.
Spread with 1 2 cup frosting.
With swirls of tender vanilla and fudgy chocolate cake this marble looks fancy but tastes like pure old fashioned goodness and it appeals to kids and grown ups alike.
The cake is covered in a silky smooth whipped chocolate frosting.
It finished it off perfectly.
Place 1 cake layer on a serving plate.
The great thing about marble cake is that there are many ways to go about it and this recipe is pretty flexible.