Marble And Layer Cake

The political health financial and relational climate of this world is a hodgepodge right now so it seemed fitting to share a dessert equally nutso.

Marble and layer cake.

This is the dessert you go when you re craving both chocolate and vanilla and because it s a slightly smaller batch recipe than i normally share here you can feel okay about making it during these more isolated times. Evenly spread about 3 4 cup frosting on top. Decorate with sprinkles if desired. If needed level cakes to create a flat surface i usually use a knife be careful doing this.

Using a large offset spatula smear chocolate to create a marble design in frosting. The filling is a chocolate swiss meringue buttercream and outside vanilla swiss meringue buttercream topped with chocolate ganache. Repeat with the last two layers. Top with remaining cake layer.

Use the leftover ganache filling to make a chocolate buttercream mixing it with some vanilla buttercream. Place final layer on top upside down and do a thin crumb coat on the cake. Preheat oven to 350 degrees f 175 degrees c. Place 1 cake layer on a serving plate.

Continue until you ve evenly distributed the batter between the pans. Trim off the cake dome if you have one. Chill for 20 30 minutes in the fridge before final decorating. 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.

Place your first cake layer onto your cake plate then spread on a layer of the ganache about 1 4 thick. Alternate spoonfuls of vanilla and chocolate cake batter into your pans. Bake your marble cakes and then either wrap them in plastic wrap and put them in the fridge to chill overnight or freeze for 30 minutes before frosting. Top with 2nd cake and spread the remaining frosting all over the sides and top.

Drop cooled chocolate by 1 2 teaspoonfuls over frosting. Step 2 place flour baking powder salt sugar butter or margarine eggs vanilla and milk into mixing bowl. Frost top and sides of cake. Marble cake is a type of cake that has contrasting swirls of batter giving a fun marbled or swirled pattern to your slices.

Frost and assemble cake. How to make marble cake layers once both cake batters and the optional chocolate fudge ripple are made the real fun starts. Place 1 cake layer on a cake stand or large serving plate. The contrasting swirls may be from a different flavor of batter or simply batter that has been tinted.