I'm supposed to make a 9 x 13 cake for a baby shower. The mom to be would like chocolate but most of the guests apparently like vanilla. There will only be about 12 people there and I don't want to make this cake to costly as I don't want to charge too much but I don't want to lose money on it either.....anyway .....is there a way that I can use a vanilla cake mix...mabe with an extender or something and then make 1/2 of the batter chocolate. Does anyone have any suggestions? Help please!!!

TIA
Cindy

If it was for a stranger then the cost might not be to much of a concern but a friend asked me to do it and I feel kind of bad to charge a lot. You can get them so cheap at the grocery store....

SInce when do the guests get to pick what kind of cake they are served? What is this world coming to?

I think a nice fudge marble is a nice compromise!

Please don't compare homemade to grocery!!!

Good luck!

yes, doable...in fact if you bought one of those marble cake mixes, that's how they do those too

divide pan w/ aluminum foil

make up your yellow cake mix

divide batter in half

half goes in as is

to other half add chocolate. can use melted chocolate, or chocolate powder w/ a bit more liquid and sugar added if don't want a dark/semisweet taste (personally I prefer semisweet). mix in well and put in other half of pan.

remove foil divider and bake.

could also just buy a marble cake mix and make it half of it chocolate using supplied chocolate packet. then put in pan as above.

You guys are wonderful!! I forgot that I could do that with a marble mix.... Thanks for the quick response....that helps me out a lot!!

Thanks again

hey doug this put the foil in pour the two different batters then take the foil out, is that how you make a half chocolate half white? i would have never had thought of that.

how much chocolate do you add to the vanilla cake batter?

I understand trying to help a friend out, but make sure to charge what you, your time, your talent, and your supplies are worth.

I usually use 1 and a half mixes for for the 13x9. So if it was me I'd do one white mix, one chocolate mix, and use the extra from each to make some cupcakes.

I do it "to taste" (bad I know! but that is how I was taught to cook...recipes just suggestions...it's right when it tastes right)

usually two or more heaping TBS of cocoa powder -- i prefer Hershey's Special Dark or Ghiradelli.