Marble Cupcake Recipe From Scratch

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.

Marble cupcake recipe from scratch.

1 1 2 teaspoons baking powder. I highly recommend following every step as written. Try to create the lines using one continuous motion going up and down and then side to side. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy about 3 minutes.

It s a fine plain cake that gets better when you use it as the base for a two tone two flavor marble cake. First you do not have to make a vanilla cupcake batter and a chocolate cupcake batter. It took about 60 tries and many months to get the recipe just right but hundreds of five star reviews later i d have to say all the testing paid off. What you re gonna do.

Lucky for both you and me these cupcakes are a snap to make. Heat oven to 350ºf. I made this for a co worker s baby shower cake and brought sample cake made from this recipe and from a very traditional marble cake recipe to the office for them to pick their favorite. 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.

Sift the cake flour baking powder and salt together in a large bowl. Sift flour salt and baking powder together. 1 1 2 cups all purpose flour. Spray or lightly butter two 9 inch cake pans.

Achieving the perfect marble cake recipe from scratch is worth every step in the process i promise. Grease and flour three 8x2 inch round cake pans. Line 12 cup regular muffin tin with paper cupcake liners. 1 1 2 sticks 6 ounces unsalted butter melted.

The eggs and butter should be room temperature the butter and sugar need to be whisked for a certain period of time etc. Then pop the layers into the preheated oven for 34 35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Repeat with remaining cake layers. 2 large eggs at room temperature.

Place a piece of parchment in the bottom of each pan. Rather you ll simply make my trusted vanilla cupcake recipe and add cocoa powder to part of its batter. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. In fact that recipe was only developed because i needed a solid and reliable base for both this marble cake recipe and my pineapple upside down cake.