Marble Cake

Moist and fluffy this Marble Cake is so easy to make! This simple twolayered cake has a silky homemade chocolate buttercream sandwiched inbetween and frosted all around. Skip the box mix the next time youre craving cake and make this from scratch with only a few simple ingredients.
Ingredients
For the Marble Cake
2¾ cups cake flour 330g
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp kosher salt
1 cup unsalted butter room temperature 227g
1¾ cups granulated sugar 350g
4 large eggs room temperature
1¼ cup whole buttermilk room temperature and divided 300mL

1 tbsp vanilla extract
4 ounces dark or semisweet chocolate chopped 113g
For the Chocolate Buttercream
1½ cups unsalted butter room temperature 340g
¼ tsp fine salt
⅓ cup unsweetened or Dutch processed cocoa powder 33g
1½ lbs confectioners sugar about 5¾ cups 675g
1 tsp vanilla extract
5 tbsp heavy whipping cream 75mL
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350F. Butter and flour 2 9inch cake pans and line the bottoms with parchment paper. Wrap the pans with cake strips.
For the Marble Cake
In a large bowl whisk together flour baking powder and salt.
In a large mixing bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment beat butter on medium speed until creamy. Add the sugar and beat until light and fluffy about 3 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time beating until well combined before adding the next.
In a large liquid measuring cup whisk together 1 cup buttermilk and vanilla.
With the mixer on low add onethird of the flour mixture. Alternate with half of the buttermilk mixture and continue alternating with the remaining flour and milk mixture.
Reserve 1½ cups 330g of batter in a large bowl. Divide the remaining batter among the two cake pans.
Melt the chocolate in the microwave in 20 second