Marble Layer Cake

Reserve 3 4 cup batter.

Marble layer cake.

The contrasting swirls may be from a different flavor of batter or simply batter that has been tinted. Place flour baking powder salt sugar butter or margarine eggs vanilla and milk into mixing bowl. In a microwave melt chocolate chips. To assemble cake place one layer of cooled marble layer on cake stand.

Evenly spread about 3 4 cup frosting on top. Bake 30 to 35 minutes until a wooden pick inserted in centers comes out clean. Decorate with sprinkles if desired. Place 1 cake layer on a cake stand or large serving plate.

Cool in pans on a wire rack 10 minutes then invert on rack peel off waxed paper and cool completely. Beat slowly to moisten then beat with an electric mixer at medium speed for about 2 minutes until smooth. Place final layer on top upside down and do a thin crumb coat on the cake. Pour the remainder into pan.

Chill for 20 30 minutes in the fridge before final decorating. Repeat with the next layer. Top with 2nd cake and spread the remaining frosting all over the sides and top. If cake layers have rounded tops trim with a serrated knife to make level.

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 1 cake layer on a serving plate. Spread a nice layer of buttercream on top of the first layer and pipe a border around the outside to hold the ganache in. The filling is a chocolate swiss meringue buttercream and outside vanilla swiss meringue buttercream topped with chocolate ganache.

Continue until you ve evenly distributed the batter between the pans. 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. 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. How to make marble cake layers once both cake batters and the optional chocolate fudge ripple are made the real fun starts.

Spread with 1 2 cup frosting. Up to 8 hours.