Marble Cake With Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

Starting with about 1 cup of chocolate buttercream scooped on top of the cake start to smooth the frosting out and over the sides of the cake.

Marble cake with chocolate buttercream frosting.

Grease and flour two 8 inch cake pans set aside. Remove from pans and cool completely on racks. Marble cake promises a lovely swirl of vanilla and chocolate. This marble cake bakes up very moist partly due to the incorporation of sour cream.

Sift the cake flour baking powder and salt together in a large bowl. Important ingredients for chocolate and vanilla bean marble cake with buttercream frosting. My chocolate buttercream recipe uses both cocoa and melted dark chocolate and boy is it tasty. Cool cakes in pans 10 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350 f 177 c. Spray or lightly butter two 9 inch cake pans. There is something about using real chocolate in frosting that just takes it to the next level flavour wise. In this video we decorated a four layer 6 inch double barrel cake with a cake cardboard halfway up resting on four bubble tea straw supports.

With a handheld or stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment beat the butter on high speed in a large bowl until smooth and creamy about 1 minute. Cover in about 1 2 cup can use more if desired of chocolate buttercream and smooth out with an offset spatula. Frosting buttercream that contains butter so that it becomes firm when chilled strips of acetate i had to tape two together to get the height that i needed. The final touch to this chocolate vanilla cake is lashings of chocolate frosting.

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. I use all purpose flour for this recipe i wouldn t swap it for cake flour. I m a big fan of using sour cream in baking recipes as you might already know from my sour cream banana bread sour cream coffee cake with cinnamon ripple and rhubarb sour cream coffee cake these are some of my favorite recipes. The tier is on a cake cardboard as well.

In a medium sized bowl mix together the cake flour baking powder and salt. Spoon chocolate batter here and there over orange batter and cut through with spatula or knife to make a marbled effect. The secret to this recipe is using best quality chocolate in the batter and buttercream frosting. While i am guilty of eating cake tops plain while i level my cakes this cake is taken to the next level with my fudgy chocolate buttercream recipe.

This marble cake recipe is honestly so delicious it almost doesn t need frosting. But not just any chocolate frosting. Gently set other marble cake layer on top and make sure it is centered.