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with solid vegetable shortening, then dust rack so that the cakes are right side up.
with flour. Shake out the excess flour. Set Allow to cool completely, 30 minutes more.
the pans aside.
5. Meanwhile, prepare the Chocolate

2. Place the cake mix, water, sour cream, Sour Cream Frosting.
eggs, and vanilla in a large mixing bowl.
6. Place one cake layer, right side up, on
Blend with an electric mixer on low speed
a serving platter. Spread the top with
for 1 minute. Stop the machine and
frosting. Place the second layer, right side
scrape down the sides of the bowl with a
up, on top of the first layer and frost the
rubber spatula. Increase the mixer speed
top and sides of the cake with clean,
to medium and beat 2 minutes more,
smooth strokes.
scraping down the sides again if needed.
The batter should look well combined. Store this cake, in a cake saver or
under a glass dome, in the refrigerator for
3. Spoon a cup of batter into a small mix- up to 1 week. Or freeze it, in a cake saver,
ing bowl. Stir in the packet of cocoa that for up to 6 months. Thaw the cake over -
came with the cake mix until well com- night in the refrigerator before serving.
bined. Divide the plain batter evenly
between the prepared pans, smoothing it
out with the rubber spatula. Drop the R
chocolate batter by tablespoonfuls over
the Cake Mix Doctor says
the plain batter in both pans, and using
the blunt end of a wooden skewer or a
dinner knife, swirl the chocolate batter You don’t have to have a marble cake
through the plain batter to marble it. Take mix to do the marble thing. Begin with
a white or yellow cake mix and
care not to scrape the bottom of the pans.
prepare it as this recipe suggests,
Place the pans in the oven side by side.
adding water, sour cream, eggs, and
4. Bake the cakes until they spring back vanilla. Measure out a cupful of batter
when lightly pressed with your finger, 26 and stir in about 2 ounces of melted
to 30 minutes. Remove the pans from the semisweet chocolate. Drop your
oven and place them on wire racks to cool chocolate batter by spoonfuls onto the
for 10 minutes. Run a dinner knife around plain batter in the cake pans. Swirl,
the edge of each layer and invert each onto bake, frost, and eat!
a rack, then invert again onto another