Marble Cake With Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

With separate light and dark batters very subtly blended in the same cake pan.

Marble cake with vanilla buttercream frosting.

I use all purpose flour for this recipe i wouldn t swap it for cake flour. 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. In a medium sized bowl mix together the cake flour baking powder and salt.

This is definitely a buttercream intensive design but it is so fun to make. It finished it off perfectly. Those are mini marble cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting. The great thing about marble cake is that there are many ways to go about it and this recipe is pretty flexible.

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. Apply a crumb coat of frosting to your cake. The secret to this recipe is using best quality chocolate in the batter and buttercream frosting. This marble cake recipe is easy to make and quick to disappear.

The chocolate flavor comes from real chocolates or 60 to 80 cocoa based chocolate chips and no cocoa powder used. It was the only design that seemed to fit a marble cake in my mind. Alternate with small splashes of cream. I used three different types of buttercream to create a fun squiggly pattern.

The idea of marbling two different colored batters into a cake originated in nineteenth century germany. While i chose to chocolate buttercream with my marble cake this time i think cream cheese frosting would also taste great. Beat the butter on a medium speed for 30 seconds with a paddle attachment until smooth. The cake is mainly vanilla with streaks of chocolate.

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. While the cake layers bake and cool make the vanilla buttercream frosting. Our classic vanilla buttercream all butter or our fluffy vanilla buttercream part shortening part butter are good examples.

The final step is covering your marble cake in homemade chocolate buttercream frosting. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. This marble cake recipe is from sally s was quite addicted and adapted it. Slowly add in the powdered sugar 1 cup at a time.