Marble Effect Cake Icing

To create the marble effect use a toothpick to swirl the batter back and forth a few times.

Marble effect cake icing.

Sometimes a plain cake covering just won t create the effect that you need. It s awesome to see the colors blend together and make such stunning patterns. Use a toothpick to create a marble effect. The frog also needed lily pads to sit on.

Marble effect using buttercream frosting make sure your cake has been correctly crumb coated and chilled. Add more green and red icing on top of the white icing and repeat until all cookies are done. Easy steps to creating a beautiful marble cake finish. In this free video tutorial i m going to show you how to create a beautiful marbled buttercream effect using strips of acetate.

In about 30 minutes your marble drip cake will harden and keep its shape. Pour the icing over the top of the cake and watch it drip down the sides. Each combination of colors creates another look. Use a cake smoother to smooth the surface of the paste before placing your marbled sugarpaste onto your cake cutting away the excess around the bottom.

You will also want to place it over some parchment paper so that if you spill some frosting it will not go over the beautiful stand. Place the white icing into a bowl and drizzle some red and green icing on top. Bake for about 35 minutes until the cake springs back when it s poked or a toothpick inserted comes out clean. The cake is covered in a silky smooth whipped chocolate frosting.

A marbelized cake is an easy way to make a decorative cake for a special occasion. Dip cookies in the marbled icing shake clean the edges using a knife or simply a toothpick and place on a rack to let the icing set. It s often streaked or mottled in appearance and contains more vanilla cake than chocolate. Place globs of both batters into the cake pans distributing the batter evenly among all three.

For my latest cake project a christening cake with a froggy theme i needed to make the cake look like a pond for the frog. Classic marble cake is a mixture of vanilla and chocolate cake that is swirled together creating a marbling effect.