The Perfect Marble Cake

Every bite is chocolatey sweet and decadent.
The perfect marble cake. It is great with a cup of coffee or tea and i enjoy it whenever i need a quick sweet bite. This is definitely a buttercream intensive design but it is so fun to make. Heat oven to 350 f. Ingredients 3 cups 342g cake flour 2 cups 400g sugar 2 teaspoons 8g baking powder 1 2 teaspoon 3g baking soda 1 2 teaspoon 3g salt 2 sticks 226g unsalted butter softened 4 large eggs 1 cup 239g buttermilk if you do not have buttermilk see note below 1 tablespoon 12g vanilla.
Mix the wet ingredients. Preheat oven to 350 f. Mix together all dry ingredients flour baking powder sugar and salt in a. Line four 6 inch round cake pans or three 7 inch cake layers with parchment rounds and grease.
In a liquid measuring cup or a small bowl whisk together. How to make marble cake step 1. Marble cake is a wonderful old fashioned baked good as pretty as it is delicious. In the bowl of a stand mixer with whisk attachment.
I used three different types of buttercream to create a fun squiggly pattern. It s crucial in order for the. Instructions adjust the oven rack to middle position and preheat the oven to 350f 180c. Sift together cake flour baking powder and salt in a medium bowl and set aside.
Mix chunks of room temperature butter. Prepare two 8 inch round cake pans by buttering or spraying and then adding a piece of parchment to the bottom of the pan. Make sure to start with room temperature ingredients. Begin by making the vanilla cake batter.
In a medium bowl whisk together the flour cornstarch baking powder baking soda and salt. It is a rich moist and buttery cake with chocolate swirls. Mix the dry ingredients and add to wet ingredients. It was the only design that seemed to fit a marble cake in my mind.
Marble cake is one of my favorite cakes. Make the chocolate batter. The idea of marbling two different colored batters into a cake originated in nineteenth century germany then made its way to america with german immigrants before the civil war.