Food & Cooking Recipes Dessert & Treats Recipes Cake Recipes Chocolate-Vanilla Marble Cakes 3.5 (103) Bake a few and give some to friends. Prep Time: 45 mins Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Servings: 16 Jump to recipe Classic Yellow Cake Batter is used to make the vanilla and chocolate layers of these impressive-looking cakes. The layers are swirled together to give a marbled effect. Credit: Romulo Yanes Directions Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter four 2-by-6-inch miniature-loaf pans (2 inches deep; not nonstick). In a medium bowl, whisk together cocoa powder and 6 tablespoons hot water. Stir half the batter into cocoa mixture. Spoon 2 dollops of batter into pan next to each other, 1 chocolate and 1 vanilla. Repeat twice, alternating layers, and swirl. Bake until a skewer inserted in center of a cake comes out with a few moist crumbs attached, 40 to 45 minutes, rotating pans halfway through. Let cool completely in pans on a wire rack. Run a knife around edges, then turn out cakes. Cook's Notes Give It a SwirlInsert a knife or skewer vertically all the way to the bottom of the pan, then swirl together the alternating vanilla and chocolate layers to create a marbled effect. Cook's Notes Store in an airtight container at room temperature, up to 3 days.