Marble Cupcake Recipe From Scratch

It s a fine plain cake that gets better when you use it as the base for a two tone two flavor marble cake.

Marble cupcake recipe from scratch.

2 large eggs at room temperature. It took about 60 tries and many months to get the recipe just right but hundreds of five star reviews later i d have to say all the testing paid off. Rather you ll simply make my trusted vanilla cupcake recipe and add cocoa powder to part of its batter. 1 4 teaspoon fine salt.

Sift flour salt and baking powder together. Then pop the layers into the preheated oven for 34 35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Repeat with remaining cake layers. 2 cups 2 tbs flour 1 1 4 tsp baking powder 1 2 tsp salt 1 1 2 sticks 12 tablespoons unsalted butter room temperature 1 cup white sugar 4 large eggs 1 tsp pure vanilla extract 1 2 cup whole milk choice of flavorings see below.

Line 12 cup regular muffin tin with paper cupcake liners. Preheat oven to 350 f 177 c. I highly recommend following every step as written. In fact that recipe was only developed because i needed a solid and reliable base for both this marble cake recipe and my pineapple upside down cake.

Sift the cake flour baking powder and salt together in a large bowl. Grease and flour three 8x2 inch round cake pans. 1 1 2 cups all purpose flour. Lucky for both you and me these cupcakes are a snap to make.

Spray or lightly butter two 9 inch cake pans. What you re gonna do. Place a piece of parchment in the bottom of each pan. First you do not have to make a vanilla cupcake batter and a chocolate cupcake batter.

1 1 2 sticks 6 ounces unsalted butter melted. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. I made this for a co worker s baby shower cake and brought sample cake made from this recipe and from a very traditional marble cake recipe to the office for them to pick their favorite. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy about 3 minutes.

With a handheld or stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment beat the butter on high speed in a large bowl until smooth and creamy about 1 minute. Try to create the lines using one continuous motion going up and down and then side to side. 1 1 2 teaspoons baking powder. This recipe was the unanimous favorite.