Boston Marble Cake

2 1 4 cups cake flour.

Boston marble cake.

A marble cake is a cake with a streaked or mottled appearance like marble achieved by very lightly blending light and dark batter. It all started with the original cinnamon walnut coffee cake recipe from our nana esther cluck. The marble boston coffee cake was greatly appreciated by the recipients. Master this classic cake the pie title is a holdover from a time when cakes and pies were typically baked in the same type of pan and you ll always have a showstopping dessert for birthdays and other special celebrations.

Classic marble cake is a mixture of vanilla and chocolate cake that is swirled together creating a marbling effect. I gave several people of importance to me two boston coffee cakes each. While i chose to chocolate buttercream with my marble cake this time i think cream cheese frosting would also taste great. Other possibilities are strawberry or other fruit flavors or particularly in marbled coffee cakes cinnamon or other spices.

Originating in early nineteenth century germany the marble cake is a relative newcomer to the jewish baking pantheon at least compared to such venerable sweets as honey cake. I used three different types of buttercream to create a fun squiggly pattern. It was the only design that seemed to fit a marble cake in my mind. Boston cream pie is a heavenly combination of light buttery layer cake creamy vanilla custard and rich chocolate icing.

I chose to bake this recipe up in 3 6 inch diameter round pans but it can also be made in 2 8 inch pans or 9 inch pans or you could make it in a 9 13 inch pan just be sure to adjust the bake times as needed if you re making it differently than what you see here. The unexpected origins of the common marble cake. I am very disappointed in this recipe i will not use it again and i will have to keep looking for a good marble cake. 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon baking powder.

How to bake marble cake. 11 12 2003 makes 1 10 inch bundt or tube cake advertisement. It s often streaked or mottled in appearance and contains more vanilla cake than chocolate. The cake just doesn t taste like marble cake and it is pretty dry not moist at all and i even added some oil.

Today we offer many fabulous choices including the original cinnamon walnut blueberry blizzard marble madness triple chocolate caramel apple harvest cranberry orange walnut lemon burst wicked raspberry cinnamon golden pumpkin and gingerbread spice. After toying with a new vanilla cake recipe that is supremely soft and moist i decided to turn that recipe into different cakes for the. This is definitely a buttercream intensive design but it is so fun to make. 1 2 teaspoon baking soda.

It can be a mixture of vanilla and chocolate cake in which case it is mainly vanilla with streaks of chocolate.