The final step is covering your marble cake in homemade chocolate buttercream frosting.
Marble cake with chocolate filling.
The cake is covered in a silky smooth whipped chocolate frosting.
Top with remaining cake layer.
Spread with 1 2 cup frosting.
Classic marble cake is a mixture of vanilla and chocolate cake that is swirled together creating a marbling effect.
It s essentially a marbled version of this award winning kentucky butter cake.
However you could totally use a vanilla frosting as well.
Surprisingly you don t need two completely different batters to make marble cake.
Frost top and sides of cake.
In a microwave melt chocolate chips.
Place 1 cake layer on a serving plate.
In a large bowl sift the flour sugar cocoa baking powder baking soda and salt.
The great thing about marble cake is that there are many ways to go about it and this recipe is pretty flexible.
Drop cooled chocolate by 1 2 teaspoonfuls over frosting.
The cake is moist flavorful and easy to put together.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and butter and flour or spray with baking spray 2 8 round baking pans.
Using a large offset spatula smear chocolate to create a marble design.
To assemble cake place one layer of cooled marble layer on cake stand.
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.