Pink Marble Cake Icing
Materials for marble cake icing.
Pink marble cake icing. If you want chocolate frosting add 1 4 to 1 2 cup cocoa according to how rich you want it. Top this neapolitan marble cake with icing or leave it plain. You can use milk instead keeping in mind the frostings won t be as creamy. In addition to the love in each layer i also added some hearts to the side of the cake to really get the point across.
Marble cake is made when you add a small amount of dark colored batter to light colored batter and lightly mix it to give the cake a marbled appearance. Since i don t work with fondant very often i usually order it online. Marble cake with swiss meringue buttercream icing feed your temptations cream of tartar sugar vanilla extract bamboo m m chocolate chips and 14 more chocolate and vanilla marble cake with chocolate icing spaulyseasonalservings. Sift the cake flour baking powder and salt together in a large bowl.
Pink and white cute combination and perfect to have with tea although the cake can also be decorated with frosting if one wanted to. You will need buttercream that firms up when cool. This one is strawberry and vanilla flavoured. 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.
Fill the pan 2 3 of the way full. Just remember it needs to hold its own once you are done. For this cake i used about 1 2 cup of white fondant and 1 cup of light pink fondant. Simply layer the chocolate and vanilla batters into a 9 2 inch cake pan or 9 inch springform pan.
Preheat oven to 350 f 177 c. As a change from having chocolate marble cake you can make just about any colour of marble cake that you like out of my soft basic vanilla cake recipe. This is a wonderfully creamy frosting that goes well with pumpkin bread carrot cake chocolate cake on cookies or between cookies. The idea of marbling two different colored batters into a cake originated in nineteenth century germany.
If you want icing but don t want to cover up all the pretty swirls on top you can simply drizzle some icing rather than coating the entire top. For the frosting heavy cream or half and half will give your frostings the creamiest texture.