Marble Cupcake Recipe From Scratch

Heat oven to 350ºf.

Marble cupcake recipe from scratch.

Place a piece of parchment in the bottom of each pan. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy about 3 minutes. 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. Sift flour salt and baking powder together.

Then pop the layers into the preheated oven for 34 35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Line 12 cup regular muffin tin with paper cupcake liners. 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.

1 1 2 sticks 6 ounces unsalted butter melted. 1 1 2 teaspoons baking powder. 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. Lucky for both you and me these cupcakes are a snap to make.

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. 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. It s a fine plain cake that gets better when you use it as the base for a two tone two flavor marble cake. What you re gonna do.

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. Rather you ll simply make my trusted vanilla cupcake recipe and add cocoa powder to part of its batter. Repeat with remaining cake layers. Achieving the perfect marble cake recipe from scratch is worth every step in the process i promise.

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. 1 1 2 cups all purpose flour. First you do not have to make a vanilla cupcake batter and a chocolate cupcake batter. The eggs and butter should be room temperature the butter and sugar need to be whisked for a certain period of time etc.

2 large eggs at room temperature. Sift the cake flour baking powder and salt together in a large bowl. This recipe was the unanimous favorite. Grease and flour three 8x2 inch round cake pans.