Marble Cake With Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

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.

Marble cake with vanilla buttercream frosting.

Important ingredients for chocolate and vanilla bean marble cake with buttercream frosting. Marble cake a moist marble sheet cake slathered with a rich and creamy double chocolate buttercream frosting. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. While i chose to chocolate buttercream with my marble cake this time i think cream cheese frosting would also taste great.

Apply a crumb coat of frosting to your cake. With separate light and dark batters very subtly blended in the same cake pan. It finished it off perfectly. The idea of marbling two different colored batters into a cake originated in nineteenth century germany.

However you could totally use a vanilla frosting as well. The great thing about marble cake is that there are many ways to go about it and this recipe is pretty flexible. It was the only design that seemed to fit a marble cake in my mind. 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. 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. Grease and flour two 8 inch cake pans set aside.

The final step is covering your marble cake in homemade chocolate buttercream frosting. I use all purpose flour for this recipe i wouldn t swap it for cake flour. Beat the butter on a medium speed for 30 seconds with a paddle attachment until smooth. Marble cake promises a lovely swirl of vanilla and chocolate.

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. Alternate with small splashes of cream. This marble cake recipe is easy to make and quick to disappear. Those are mini marble cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting.

Our classic vanilla buttercream all butter or our fluffy vanilla buttercream part shortening part butter are good examples. In a medium sized bowl mix together the cake flour baking powder and salt. The secret to this recipe is using best quality chocolate in the batter and buttercream frosting. While the cake layers bake and cool make the vanilla buttercream frosting.