With a handheld or stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment beat the butter on high speed in a large bowl until smooth and creamy about 1 minute.
Marble birthday cake recipe from scratch.
Frost top and sides of cake.
Preheat oven to 350 f 177 c.
Scoop some of your cake batter into a small bowl see recipe for details and combine with the chocolate mixture to create chocolate batter.
Line bottom of two 9 inch round cake pans with waxed paper.
Place 1 cake layer on a serving plate.
To assemble cake place one layer of cooled marble layer on cake stand.
Heat oven to 350 f.
Using a large offset spatula smear chocolate to create a marble design in frosting.
Mix flour baking soda and salt.
Step 2 place flour baking powder salt sugar butter or margarine eggs vanilla and milk into mixing bowl.
The boys made this marble cake recipe into a layer cake by placing the batter in two separate round cake pans prior to baking.
Grease and flour a 9 inch round pan.
Before pouring the batter though the pans need to be prepped with a light dusting of flour and then the boys place parchment paper in the bottom of each pan to help prevent the cake from sticking.
I suggest starting with 8 ounces of vanilla cake batter in each pan followed by 8 ounces of chocolate cake batter in each pan for a total of about 16 ounces of batter in each pan.
Next dissolve cocoa powder into hot water.
Top with remaining cake layer.
How to make a marble cake to create a marbled effect with your cake batter you first need to make your white or yellow cake batter.
Spray or lightly butter two 9 inch cake pans.
Try to create the lines using one continuous motion going up and down and then side to side.
If you re using 6 inch pans use 6 ounces of vanilla followed by 6 ounces of chocolate.
Sift the cake flour baking powder and salt together in a large bowl.
Drop cooled chocolate by 1 2 teaspoonfuls over frosting.
It s a fine plain cake that gets better when you use it as the base for a two tone two flavor marble cake.
2 cups 2 tbs flour 1 1 4 tsp baking powder 1 2 tsp salt 1 1 2 sticks 12 tablespoons unsalted butter room temperature 1 cup white sugar 4 large eggs 1 tsp pure vanilla extract 1 2 cup whole milk choice of flavorings see below preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Then pop the layers into the preheated oven for 34 35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Spread with 1 2 cup frosting.