Marble Birthday Cake Recipe From Scratch

It s a fine plain cake that gets better when you use it as the base for a two tone two flavor marble cake.

Marble birthday cake recipe from scratch.

Mix flour baking soda and salt. Scoop some of your cake batter into a small bowl see recipe for details and combine with the chocolate mixture to create chocolate batter. The boys made this marble cake recipe into a layer cake by placing the batter in two separate round cake pans prior to baking. How to make a marble cake to create a marbled effect with your cake batter you first need to make your white or yellow cake batter.

Place 1 cake layer on a serving plate. Next dissolve cocoa powder into hot water. Grease and flour a 9 inch round pan. Spread with 1 2 cup frosting.

Preheat oven to 350 f 177 c. To assemble cake place one layer of cooled marble layer on cake stand. Heat oven to 350 f. 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.

2 cups 2 tbs flour 1 1 4 tsp baking powder 1 2 tsp salt 1 1 2 sticks 12 tablespoons unsalted butter room temperature 1 cup white sugar 4 large eggs 1 tsp pure vanilla extract 1 2 cup whole milk choice of flavorings see below preheat oven to 325 degrees. Using a large offset spatula smear chocolate to create a marble design in frosting. I suggest starting with 8 ounces of vanilla cake batter in each pan followed by 8 ounces of chocolate cake batter in each pan for a total of about 16 ounces of batter in each pan. Before pouring the batter though the pans need to be prepped with a light dusting of flour and then the boys place parchment paper in the bottom of each pan to help prevent the cake from sticking.

Sift the cake flour baking powder and salt together in a large bowl. Drop cooled chocolate by 1 2 teaspoonfuls over frosting. You should not have needed to level these cakes but in the small change that you did now would be the time to do so cover in about 1 2 cup can use more if desired of chocolate buttercream and smooth out with an offset spatula. If you re using 6 inch pans use 6 ounces of vanilla followed by 6 ounces of chocolate.

Frost top and sides of cake. Line bottom of two 9 inch round cake pans with waxed paper. Step 2 place flour baking powder salt sugar butter or margarine eggs vanilla and milk into mixing bowl. Preheat oven to 350 degrees f 175 degrees c.

Top with remaining cake layer. Spray or lightly butter two 9 inch cake pans.