Making Marble Cake Out Of Vanilla?
Decorating By mhill91801 Updated 28 Jun 2006 , 7:41pm by koolchica
I have a customer who wants a marble cake. Fine, no biggie. Well, until she says "As little chocolate as possible". Well, I confess, I'm a box mix baker. When I make a marble cake, I usually make a vanilla cake and a chocolate cake mix, and swirl them together. Usually ends up with lots of chocolate. So, my question is...Can I just add cocoa powder or something??? to a little of the vanilla mix just to give me a little chocolate? Or, should I just go back to the store, and buy 2 mixes of marble? TIA
I think you could just take some of the white batter out and mix in some cocoa, but I just wouldnt know how much.
Thanks, anyone one else?? I really have no clue????
here's a bump for you--I'd love to know what other bakers do for marble, too...
I bake from scratch and the only recipes I have found for marble suggest mixing melted (and slightly cooled) semisweet chocolate into a portion of the yellow cake batter and then swirling that in the pan--I think that was from baking911.com. I am not a big fan of marble cake (I like just vanilla or just chocolate 
), but my customers were very happy. When I baked the cakes, the top of the cake was crusted. I just cut that off before decorating and the rest of the cake was nice and moist and smelled like chocolate chip cookies. I believe I added 2-3 ounces of melted chocolate to each cup of batter. When it looked "chocolate" enough I stopped adding. I have wondered if cocoa powder would work better, but I really didn't want to eat another experiment until I got another marble cake order. 
add coco to a small amount of the vanilla untill you get the taste that you want, it should work out just fine. goodluck
I think you could just take some of the white batter out and mix in some cocoa, but I just wouldnt know how much.
This is what I do. Also the one time I made marble cake from a box it said to do it this way. it came with a pack of cocoa and I just had to mix it with some of the cake mix.
Tracie
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