Buttermilk an acid is usually paired with baking soda but the purpose of buttermilk in this marble cake recipe isn t for its acidity.
Marble cake ingredients and procedure.
Step 2 if you want to make life easy simply put 225g butter 225g caster sugar 4 eggs 225g self raising flour 3 tbsp milk and 1 tsp vanilla extract into a food processor and whizz for 1 2 mins until smooth.
Marble cake is a classic childhood cooking memory.
Grease a 20cm cake tin and line the bottom with a circle of greaseproof paper.
Mix chunks of room temperature butter slowly into the dry mix on a low speed.
Begin by making the vanilla cake batter.
In this recipe you will learn how to make the cake mix with the following ingredients.
Pour the remainder into pan.
Mix the cocoa powder to make the chocolate batter.
How to make marble cake.
Classic marble cake is a mixture of vanilla and chocolate cake that is swirled together creating a marbling effect.
Place flour baking powder salt sugar butter or margarine eggs vanilla and milk into mixing bowl.
It will work with any marble cake recipe as long as the recipe has two different batter colors.
Beat slowly to moisten then beat with an electric mixer at medium speed for about 2 minutes until smooth.
Whether using lurid colours for a psychedelic finish or just.
Rather it s for flavor and moisture.
Here is my favorite method for marbling cake.
Our easy sponges and brownies look almost too good to eat.
It s often streaked or mottled in appearance and contains more vanilla cake than chocolate.
Baking powder gives the cake its lift.
Mix together all dry ingredients flour baking powder sugar and salt in a stand mixer with a paddle until fully combined.
Create a distinct swirled pattern in bakes with our marble cake recipes also sometimes called zebra cakes.
It produces a nice even marbling result and it s really simple.
Follow the steps in the recipe card and learn the techniques on how to create the marble effect in the cake.
Continue to mix until no large chunks of butter remain and the mixture becomes crumbly.
Reserve 3 4 cup batter.
Even though we will be using buttermilk as the liquid in the batter we are using baking powder.
The classic chocolate and marbled sponge cake is filled and topped with baileys frosting and the on trend marble sponge of course had to be complemented with artistic marbled effect icing.