Marble Cake With Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

The idea of marbling two different colored batters into a cake originated in nineteenth century germany.

Marble cake with vanilla buttercream frosting.

While the cake layers bake and cool make the vanilla buttercream frosting. Marble cake a moist marble sheet cake slathered with a rich and creamy double chocolate buttercream frosting. With separate light and dark batters very subtly blended in the same cake pan. The cake is mainly vanilla with streaks of chocolate.

I use all purpose flour for this recipe i wouldn t swap it for cake flour. In a medium sized bowl mix together the cake flour baking powder and salt. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 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.

The chocolate flavor comes from real chocolates or 60 to 80 cocoa based chocolate chips and no cocoa powder used. The great thing about marble cake is that there are many ways to go about it and this recipe is pretty flexible. While i chose to chocolate buttercream with my marble cake this time i think cream cheese frosting would also taste great. Alternate with small splashes of cream.

The secret to this recipe is using best quality chocolate in the batter and buttercream frosting. It finished it off perfectly. Slowly add in the powdered sugar 1 cup at a time. It was the only design that seemed to fit a marble cake in my mind.

Those are mini marble cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting. Important ingredients for chocolate and vanilla bean marble cake with buttercream frosting. This is definitely a buttercream intensive design but it is so fun to make. This marble cake recipe is easy to make and quick to disappear.

Beat the butter on a medium speed for 30 seconds with a paddle attachment until smooth. I used three different types of buttercream to create a fun squiggly pattern. Grease and flour two 8 inch cake pans set aside. Apply a crumb coat of frosting to your cake.

However you could totally use a vanilla frosting as well. The final step is covering your marble cake in homemade chocolate buttercream frosting. Our classic vanilla buttercream all butter or our fluffy vanilla buttercream part shortening part butter are good examples. Marble cake promises a lovely swirl of vanilla and chocolate.