It’s best to use baking chocolate for this recipe over chocolate chips. For the chocolate batter, simply remove a cup of yellow batter and mix in melted semi-sweet chocolate.

Ingredient Info and Substitution SuggestionsĬAKE – We’ve made a classic yellow cake using simple ingredients you likely have on hand already. Get all measurements, ingredients, and instructions in the printable version at the end of this post. Just be careful not to over-mix when you’re swirling the batters together. The beauty of this cake is that the marble pattern is different every time you make it. Decadent chocolate batter swirled together with vanilla, baked until soft and golden, then topped with our chocolate fudge frosting, all of which are made entirely from scratch in the easiest way possible! Made with soft, pillowy chocolate and yellow cake swirled together in harmony and topped with rich fudgy frosting, there’s nothing better when you’re craving both! Why this recipe works This ensures that your exterior layer of frosting goes on nice and smooth.Marble cake brings the best of both worlds to the dessert table. Once you have your layers filled with frosting, you’ll want to crumb coat the cake, which is when you put a thin layer of frosting over the entire outside of your cake to cover any crumbs. I chose to cut my cake to have four thin layers, but you can also do two thick layers. Next, you’ll want to frost on top of your bottom layer, and then stack your next layer. If you’re fancy, you can use a cake leveler. I take a large kitchen knife and put my hand on top of the cake, gently slicing through so I end up with flat layers. Once your cake layers are baked and cooled, you’ll want to level them so that you can easily stack them. See below for a visual on what this should look like. Continue this process until you’ve run out of batter. Then, take your next color, and put a 2 tbsp dollop right in the center of the last color, and so on. Then, take your next color, and using a different spoon so as not to mix colors, put another 2 tbsp dollop right in the center of the first color. Take your first color, and put about 2 tbsp in the center of the cake pan. Once you’ve mixed your batters, spray your cake pans, and it’s time to start creating the swirls. Regular food coloring gives you dull colors and affects texture.

With gel coloring, a little goes a long way, and it gives you gorgeous, vibrant colors. Then, using a gel food coloring, put a little bit (literally use a toothpick) in each batter, and mix well, adding color as needed until to get your desired shades. Split your batter into that many separate bowls or containers. Then, decide how many colors you want to have. But it’s actually super easy (promise).įirst things first, make your cake batter. This cake looks super intricate, with layers of colors and a beautiful swirl. I’m so thrilled about the community I’ve built, and want to thank each and every one of you for being here. The fact that my message resonates with over 40,000 people is absolutely amazing. Enjoy a light, delicious dinner followed by a decadent slice of cake. And, most of all, I want to show people that you can have your cake and eat it too. So I set out to share the foods I actually make at home – with some tasty treats in between- showing people that cooking can be simple, fun, and delicious. More people were forced to cook at home, and I get that not everyone likes to cook.

All of the sudden, people couldn’t really eat out anymore. So I got back in the kitchen, and the rest is history. Then, I found myself super burnt out and wanting nothing more than a home cooked meal. I was fortunate to grow my page to 10,000 followers eating out at amazing restaurants and sharing it along the way. When I started this blog, it was just a place to take photos of food I ate throughout the city of Philadelphia. I need to take a second to just FREAK OUT because I am in shock. Perfect for your next party, this cake looks impressive, but it WAY easier than you’d think. I made this cake to celebrate my blog passing 40,000 followers (ah!!!), and it is a slam dunk. Nothing says celebration quite like a crazy, decadent, layered cake – and this rainbow swirl cake fits the bill.

Swirl cake