Marble Yule Log Recipe

Recipe and photo from Nordic Ware.

Ingredients:

• - 1 (13.25 oz) box yellow cake mix
• - 4 eggs
• - 3/4 cup sour cream
• - 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• - 1/4 cup water
• - 1/2 cup sugar
• - 1 teaspoon vanilla
• - 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted

Instructions:

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour pan; set aside.
2. In a large bowl, combine cake mix, eggs, sour cream, oil, water, sugar, and vanilla. Beat on medium speed for 2 minutes, scraping the bowl often.
3. Remove one-third of the batter and place it in a small bowl; set aside the remaining batter.
4. Stir melted chocolate into the batter in the small bowl.
5. Spoon half of the vanilla batter and half of the chocolate batter into the prepared pan. Using a small spatula, gently swirl the batters together.
6. Spoon the remaining batters into the pan and swirl again.
7. Bake for 40-45 minutes, until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
8. Cool for 10 minutes in the pan, then invert onto a cooling rack and cool the cake completely.
9. Decorate as desired.