Marble Cake. Place flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, butter or margarine, eggs, vanilla, and milk into mixing bowl. I bake wedding cakes and have always received rave reviews for my cake flavor. Am baking a marble wedding cake for next weekend and cannot wait to test out this recipe.

Marble cake is a type of cake that has contrasting swirls of batter, giving a fun marbled or swirled pattern to your slices. The contrasting swirls may be from a different flavor of batter, or simply batter that has been tinted. Begin by making the vanilla cake batter. You can cook Marble Cake using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Marble Cake

It's 100 g of butter softened.
Prepare 100 g of caster sugar.
Prepare 4 of eggs.
It's 200 g of self-raising flour.
Prepare 3 tbsp of milk.
It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
It's 2 tbsp of cocoa powder.

When you're not sure whether you should make chocolate cake or vanilla cake, marble cake is the answer. It's the best of both cake worlds! Classic marble cake is a mixture of vanilla and chocolate cake that is swirled together creating a marbling effect. It's often streaked or mottled in appearance and contains more vanilla cake than chocolate.

Marble Cake step by step

Mix 225g butter, 225g caster sugar, 4 eggs, 225g self-raising flour, 3 tbsp milk and 1 tsp vanilla extract into a food processor and whizz for 1-2 mins until smooth..
Divide the mixture between 2 bowls. Stir 2 tbsp cocoa powder into the mixture in one of the bowls. Take 2 spoons and use them to dollop the chocolate and vanilla cake mixes into the tin alternately..
Take a skewer and swirl it around the mixture in the tin a few times to create a marbled effect..
Bake the cake for 45-55 mins until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Turn out onto a cooling rack and leave to cool..

So to get started making this Marble Cake, you'll make the vanilla cake batter. A combination of butter and vegetable oil are used to add both flavor and moisture to the cake. Butter adds the flavor you really love in a vanilla cake, while oil adds the ever important moisture. Marble cake is made of two differently flavored, color-contrasting cake batters that, prior to baking, are swirled together in the pan to produce a pretty, decorative, "marble" effect. You know what a marble cake looks like.