Marble Cake - Am I Thinking It Right?
Decorating By trumpetmidget Updated 22 Apr 2007 , 5:22pm by cambo
I have been asked to make a 12x18 sheet cake. The girl would like marble cake. Now, I know I can get marble cake mix at the store, but was thinking of doing it this way. Have you done it and will it work? I have never made marble cake before so any secrets would be good. My idea is 2-3 mixes of yellow cake and 1 mix of chocolate. I am going to put the yellow cake mix in the pan and when the pan is close to full, I am going to pour the chocolate mix from a pyrex measuring cup into the pan in a random "cornelli lace" pattern. Does that sound right?
Thanks for the help!
You can do that but this is the way I do my marble cake. I divide my yellow cake batter into 3 parts. Pour the first part of the yellow cake batter into the prepared pan then pour or spoon some chocolate cake batter. Then, the yellow cake batter, chocolate, yellow batter. Make swirls in it using a knife or spatula for a marbled effect.
Happy baking! 
I do it similiar to the above posts. I set aside some of my yellow batter and add cocoa to it until it's the darkness I want. Then fill the pan with the still yellow batter, then glob the cocoa batter on top. Then make swirly design with a knife. Don't swirl too much or you'll lose the marble effect.
-Rezzy
I am going to pour the chocolate mix from a pyrex measuring cup into the pan in a random "cornelli lace" pattern. Does that sound right?
Thanks for the help!
I don't think the chocolate will sink through the yellow cake. You need to draw a knife or spatula through the chocolate to marbelize the cake. Like mentioned above, put blobs of chocolate in the pan randomly and zig zag your knife through the whole cake back and forth to marbelize.
Yes, once you put the chocolate on top, you need to drag your knife or spatula through it so it will go through out the batter.
I use the once recipe from the cake mix doctor book. It is made with yellow cake mix. Then take chocolate morsels with a little milk and melt. Pour the yellow cake mix in pan, then spoon randomly the chocolate mixture on top of the cake mix. Then just take a knife and swirl.
I do both but call the white & choc - tuxedo
yellow & choc is just marble.
The first time I heard of white & choc was from my neighbor at the time who was from Omaha and had never heard of marble being yellow & choc
I do both but call the white & choc - tuxedo
yellow & choc is just marble.
The first time I heard of white & choc was from my neighbor at the time who was from Omaha and had never heard of marble being yellow & choc
Hmm maybe it's just the area i'm in b/c all the marble around here is white and chocolate. I'm not that far north of you didn't think there would be that much of a difference.
I do like the name Tuxedo... maybe I will call my white/chocolate that and the marble yellow/choc.
am i the only one that makes my marble cake with white and chocolate instead of yellow and chocolate?
As for technique I have tried multiples and all of the above ideas are great!
I do! Because I don't like yellow cake and because wedding cake should be white (even if it DOES have swirls of chocolate in it!) 
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If you buy a marble cake mix, it's yellow and chocolate.
When I do my marble cakes I seperate the plain cake batter into seperate bowls and add colour and/or flavour to that. I use a couple of soup ladles and just blob it into the cake tin alternating each time. When all batter is in the tin I run a skewer through in a figure 8 pattern.
I have a pic in my gallery
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo-311013.html
I never make marble cake with anything but white. Yellow cake is evil 
BTW: I have found for the best marble effect, fill your pan half full put blobs of choc( I use a large pastry bag), Fill to 2/3 add remaining choc blobs, then swirl with a knife.
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