Fudge Marble Caramel Swirl Cake

Chocolate and caramel are a match made in heaven - especially in a cake. This marble cake has three marblings; white cake, chocolate cake, and sweet caramel. There is caramel inside and on top, making the cake pretty as well as moist and tasty.

Fudge Marble Caramel Swirl Cake
1 box (two layer size) or one recipe marble cake
caramel sauce (such as caramel sundae sauce)

Prepare the cake as usual. Then give a good squirt of caramel, in a random pattern, all over the cake and swirl in, just as the chocolate was swirled on. Bake as directed.
Once baked, immediately poke the cake with a skewer, then pour more caramel sauce over the cake immediately, allowing it to melt into the cake. Cool completely, then serve. This moist and sweet cake needs no frosting. 

Pistachio Mint Swirl Cake

Pistachio Mint Swirl Cake
1 package (two layer size) marble cake mix
1 package (four serving size instant pistachio pudding)
4 large eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup water
1 cup mint chocolate chips, divided

Preheat oven to 350◦F. Grease a tube or bundt pan.
In a large bowl, beat together all ingredients except the chips and chocolate swirl mix until smooth. Remove one cup of batter and stir in the chocolate swirl packet and 1/2 cup chips.
Pour half of the plain batter in prepared pan. Spoon chocolate batter over top. Top with remaining batter. Gently swirl a knife through batter a few times. Then sprinkle with remaining chips.
Bake for 40-45 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool before unmolding.

This cake may look fairly basic from the outside, but as you can see from the slice placed on top, it is a nice light green color from the pistachio, with a chocolate swirl in the middle. The mint chips add another depth of flavor that pair well with both the pistachio and the chocolate. 

Chocolate Fudge Swirl Cake

Here is the finished cake! It is a marble cake smothered in a thick vanilla glaze with cherry piping details. The marble cake batter was enriched with yogurt, which I thought would make it extra-moist, and although it certainly wasn't dry, it wasn't outstandingly moist either. Oh well, it is still a pretty good cake with no unneccesary steps, or separating eggs or anything. Just a straight-forward cake batter baked in a bundt pan. Bundt cakes eliminate the tough work of filling and stacking two round cakes, but bundt cakes are a bit more troublesome to frost. I prefer to use a glaze on bundt cakes, and just let it slip down the sides of the cake. Whatever you do, make sure you grease and flour the bundt pan very well (since bundt pans are impossible to line), otherwise you will be stuck with a broken cake!

“Fudge Marble Swirl Cake.” http://www.simplyhomemade.ca/recipes/recipe-details.aspx?rid=4493. Simply Homemade, n.d. Friday, August 19, 2011.

Cake and Glaze

Tomorrow I will be assembling a Fudge Marble Swirl Cake from a little Robin Hood Flour booklet. It is in the oven baking now, and it is starting to smell really good! I had to wait until the evening when it finally cooled down a degree or two to make it, since it was such a lovely warm day today! It is in the oven now. I'll allow it to cool completely overnight, and early tomorrow I will drizzle it with a simple vanilla glaze. I'm hoping it will be good! Here is a picture of it right before it went into the oven.

I'll share my vanilla glaze recipe that I plan to use with you, but it is nothing special. Short, sweet, and simple. Foolproof.

Vanilla Glaze
1 Tbsp. unsalted butter, melted
1 cup icing sugar, sifted
1 Tbsp. milk
1/2 tsp. pure vanilla extract

In a medium bowl, mix all of the ingredients together until smooth. Add more icing sugar or milk, depending on the consistency, to suit your needs. Drizzle or pour over cake.

This glaze is also great for cookies, cinnamon rolls, muffins, bars, and almost any other baked good. It's flavour can be changed by substituting another flavour extract for the vanilla and/or using juice or liquor in place of the milk. Chocolate glaze can be obtained by adding a touch of cocoa.

“Fudge Marble Swirl Cake.” http://www.simplyhomemade.ca/recipes/recipe-details.aspx?rid=4493. Simply Homemade, n.d. Friday, August 19, 2011.