Marble Cake With Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

This is definitely a buttercream intensive design but it is so fun to make.

Marble cake with vanilla buttercream frosting. This marble cake recipe is from sally s was quite addicted and adapted it. Marble cake is made when you add a small amount of dark colored batter to light colored batter and lightly mix it to give the cake a marbled appearance. Important ingredients for chocolate and vanilla bean marble cake with buttercream frosting. The great thing about marble cake is that there are many ways to go about it and this recipe is pretty flexible.

Marble cake promises a lovely swirl of vanilla and chocolate. I used three different types of buttercream to create a fun squiggly pattern. Slowly add in the powdered sugar 1 cup at a time. It finished it off perfectly.

With separate light and dark batters very subtly blended in the same cake pan. 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. In a medium sized bowl mix together the cake flour baking powder and salt. The chocolate flavor comes from real chocolates or 60 to 80 cocoa based chocolate chips and no cocoa powder used.

However you could totally use a vanilla frosting as well. The secret to this recipe is using best quality chocolate in the batter and buttercream frosting. Beat the butter on a medium speed for 30 seconds with a paddle attachment until smooth. This marble cake recipe is easy to make and quick to disappear.

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. It was the only design that seemed to fit a marble cake in my mind. Alternate with small splashes of cream. While the cake layers bake and cool make the vanilla buttercream frosting.

The final step is covering your marble cake in homemade chocolate buttercream frosting. Grease and flour two 8 inch cake pans set aside. The idea of marbling two different colored batters into a cake originated in nineteenth century germany. Those are mini marble cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting.

Apply a crumb coat of frosting to your cake. While i chose to chocolate buttercream with my marble cake this time i think cream cheese frosting would also taste great. Marble cake a moist marble sheet cake slathered with a rich and creamy double chocolate buttercream frosting. Our classic vanilla buttercream all butter or our fluffy vanilla buttercream part shortening part butter are good examples.