Marble Cake With Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

Marble cake promises a lovely swirl of vanilla and chocolate.

Marble cake with vanilla buttercream frosting.

In a medium sized bowl mix together the cake flour baking powder and salt. For best results use a buttercream that contains butter rather than all shortening as butter based frostings will become firm much more quickly when chilled. This marble cake recipe is easy to make and quick to disappear. While i chose to chocolate buttercream with my marble cake this time i think cream cheese frosting would also taste great.

The great thing about marble cake is that there are many ways to go about it and this recipe is pretty flexible. Beat the butter on a medium speed for 30 seconds with a paddle attachment until smooth. Those are mini marble cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting. I use a high quality dutch process cocoa powder because the flavor is more intense and pleasant and it also doesn t change the acidity of the cake.

Important ingredients for chocolate and vanilla bean marble cake with buttercream frosting. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. However you could totally use a vanilla frosting as well. This is definitely a buttercream intensive design but it is so fun to make.

Slowly add in the powdered sugar 1 cup at a time. I use all purpose flour for this recipe i wouldn t swap it for cake flour. The idea of marbling two different colored batters into a cake originated in nineteenth century germany. Our classic vanilla buttercream all butter or our fluffy vanilla buttercream part shortening part butter are good examples.

The secret to this recipe is using best quality chocolate in the batter and buttercream frosting. Apply a crumb coat of frosting to your cake. While the cake layers bake and cool make the vanilla buttercream frosting. It was the only design that seemed to fit a marble cake in my mind.

With separate light and dark batters very subtly blended in the same cake pan. The final step is covering your marble cake in homemade chocolate buttercream frosting. The cake is mainly vanilla with streaks of chocolate. This marble cake recipe is from sally s was quite addicted and adapted it.

I used three different types of buttercream to create a fun squiggly pattern. The chocolate flavor comes from real chocolates or 60 to 80 cocoa based chocolate chips and no cocoa powder used. Grease and flour two 8 inch cake pans set aside. It finished it off perfectly.