2 Layer Marble Cake

The recipe actully made 2 8 inch layer cakes.

2 layer marble cake.

Store cake layers can be wrapped in plastic and stored at room temperatures for two to three days. Frozen for a month or more. Spread with 1 2 cup frosting. An easy marble cake recipe.

It is now suitable for a three layer cake. When we adjusted our yellow cake recipe we updated this marble cake as well since it was based on our yellow cake. 5 10 19 we have updated this marble cake recipe. We think that you will love the new recipe.

Though there is a marble pound cake recipe in that book three years 2 cookbooks and 23 mediocre marble cakes later here we are. It cracked terribly on top. Hardly a cake taste at all. How to bake marble cake.

Of course after i created my thumb nails and added text to my videos google informed me that most people actually call them marble cake layers. Using a large offset spatula smear chocolate to create a marble design in frosting. That is a single layer. I am so glad that i made this cake 2 days before my son s birthday because i would ve been embarrased to serve this cake at his party.

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. To assemble cake place one layer of cooled marble layer on cake stand. To say i m excited is an understatement. It makes more batter has contains more butter and uses buttermilk for a softer crumb.

On a separate note i always thought these were called marbled cake layers. This recipe is years in the making in fact i wanted to publish a marble cake in my first cookbook but couldn t perfect a recipe in time. I ve gotten lots of requests for a marble cake lately so i knew i needed to share this recipe as soon as i had it right. 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.

I initially titled this post marbled layer cake recipe. The recipe states 1 8 inch layer cake. The cake can be baked in a 9 x 13 x 2 inch greased cake pan taking 45 55 minutes to bake. After many many versions of this marble cake i m so excited to share the final one with you.

Frost top and sides of cake. Serve fill and frost layers when they have cooled. Place 1 cake layer on a serving plate. Drop cooled chocolate by 1 2 teaspoonfuls over frosting.