Marble Cake With Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

Important ingredients for chocolate and vanilla bean marble cake with buttercream frosting.

Marble cake with vanilla buttercream frosting.

Grease and flour two 8 inch cake pans set aside. 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. Marble cake a moist marble sheet cake slathered with a rich and creamy double chocolate buttercream frosting.

Marble cake promises a lovely swirl of vanilla and chocolate. The secret to this recipe is using best quality chocolate in the batter and buttercream frosting. 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 finished it off perfectly.

Slowly add in the powdered sugar 1 cup at a time. Beat the butter on a medium speed for 30 seconds with a paddle attachment until smooth. 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.

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. The final step is covering your marble cake in homemade chocolate 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.

The cake is mainly vanilla with streaks of chocolate. Apply a crumb coat of frosting to your cake. With separate light and dark batters very subtly blended in the same cake pan. While the cake layers bake and cool make the vanilla buttercream frosting.

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. 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. Our classic vanilla buttercream all butter or our fluffy vanilla buttercream part shortening part butter are good examples.

This marble cake recipe is from sally s was quite addicted and adapted it. This is definitely a buttercream intensive design but it is so fun to make. Alternate with small splashes of cream. This marble cake recipe is easy to make and quick to disappear.