Marble Cake With Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

The secret to this recipe is using best quality chocolate in the batter and buttercream frosting.

Marble cake with vanilla buttercream frosting.

Marble cake promises a lovely swirl of vanilla and chocolate. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. With separate light and dark batters very subtly blended in the same cake pan. 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.

The idea of marbling two different colored batters into a cake originated in nineteenth century germany. In a medium sized bowl mix together the cake flour baking powder and salt. The great thing about marble cake is that there are many ways to go about it and this recipe is pretty flexible. This marble cake recipe is easy to make and quick to disappear.

This marble cake recipe is from sally s was quite addicted and adapted it. However you could totally use a vanilla frosting as well. 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. Slowly add in the powdered sugar 1 cup at a time.

Marble cake a moist marble sheet cake slathered with a rich and creamy double chocolate buttercream frosting. It finished it off perfectly. This is definitely a buttercream intensive design but it is so fun to make. 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.

I use all purpose flour for this recipe i wouldn t swap it for cake flour. The final step is covering your marble cake in homemade chocolate buttercream frosting. While the cake layers bake and cool make the vanilla buttercream frosting. The cake is mainly vanilla with streaks of chocolate.

Apply a crumb coat of frosting to your cake. Beat the butter on a medium speed for 30 seconds with a paddle attachment until smooth. While i chose to chocolate buttercream with my marble cake this time i think cream cheese frosting would also taste great. Our classic vanilla buttercream all butter or our fluffy vanilla buttercream part shortening part butter are good examples.

Alternate with small splashes of cream. Important ingredients for chocolate and vanilla bean marble cake with buttercream frosting. The chocolate flavor comes from real chocolates or 60 to 80 cocoa based chocolate chips and no cocoa powder used. I used three different types of buttercream to create a fun squiggly pattern.