Marble Effect Cake Icing

In about 30 minutes your marble drip cake will harden and keep its shape.

Marble effect cake icing.

Use a toothpick to create a marble effect. Easy steps to creating a beautiful marble cake finish. Pour the icing over the top of the cake and watch it drip down the sides. Sometimes a plain cake covering just won t create the effect that you need.

Bake for about 35 minutes until the cake springs back when it s poked or a toothpick inserted comes out clean. A marbelized cake is an easy way to make a decorative cake for a special occasion. Use a cake smoother to smooth the surface of the paste before placing your marbled sugarpaste onto your cake cutting away the excess around the bottom. It s called marbling feathering or swirling which is basically when one or more colors of icing are applied to a base coat of icing and then a toothpick cake tester pin or skewer is dragged through the icing to create a marbled or swirly effect.

It s awesome to see the colors blend together and make such stunning patterns. Place the white icing into a bowl and drizzle some red and green icing on top. Marbled buttercream is a popular cake decorating technique lately and i love how easy it is to create with a few simple steps. The frog also needed lily pads to sit on.

Classic marble cake is a mixture of vanilla and chocolate cake that is swirled together creating a marbling effect. Add more green and red icing on top of the white icing and repeat until all cookies are done. Place globs of both batters into the cake pans distributing the batter evenly among all three. To create the marble effect use a toothpick to swirl the batter back and forth a few times.

The cake is covered in a silky smooth whipped chocolate frosting. You will also want to place it over some parchment paper so that if you spill some frosting it will not go over the beautiful stand. In this free video tutorial i m going to show you how to create a beautiful marbled buttercream effect using strips of acetate. Each combination of colors creates another look.

Marble effect using buttercream frosting make sure your cake has been correctly crumb coated and chilled. For my latest cake project a christening cake with a froggy theme i needed to make the cake look like a pond for the frog.