Marble Loaf Cake

This pound cake recipe uses the same idea as a marble cake and then tops it with a thick chocolate frosting.

Marble loaf cake.

Bake at 350 f for 45 to 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. A tube cake with vanilla and chocolate layers swirled together to achieve a marbled effect. Invert onto cooling racks. How to create the marble effect.

Pour the remaining batter into a greased and floured 9x5 in. Even easier than my chocolate cake with all the richness of my vanilla pound cake recipe this marbled loaf is a show stopper. Pound cake does tend to be more dense than a regular cake but this pound cake recipe is nice and moist. The flour was the third ingredient and it made the batter like a thick cookie dough until i got.

This is the technique i used here as i find it less messy and quicker. Moist chocolate cake marbled with vanilla cake batter an easy marble cake baked in just 60 minutes. Spoon half the chocolate batter on top of yellow batter in each pan. Carefully loosen cakes from pans.

In a small bowl combine 1 2 cup batter and chocolate syrup. You may cut down the chocolate portion to 1 3 of the batter. I used 3 mini loaf pans to make the marble cake. Spoon chocolate batter over the top.

Run knife through batters to marble. Gently cut through batter with a knife to swirl. Cool in pans 5 minutes. By piping the batters using piping bags or by dropping dollops of batters into the loaf pan with a spoon or ice cream scoop.

Spoon half the yellow batter in each loaf pan. If so use 1 tablespoon cocoa powder to mix the batter. The batter for this cake is thin so carefully add it to the loaf pan alternating between dollops of vanilla and chocolate batter use a long skewer or a knife to swirl the batter together bake for an hour or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. You can use 1 regular loaf pan 9x5 inch 1 square pan 9x9 inch or 8x8 inch or 1 round pan to make this recipe.

I was looking to recreate something akin to starbucks marble loaf the other thing was the order of the ingredients being added was a little odd to me. The whole thing bakes up into one giant rich marble loaf pound cake. The cake is totally delicious all on its own but if you want it to stay true to the starbucks original it will require a chocolate glaze on top. If you line your pan carefully with foil using your knuckles not to tear it you won t have to wash the pan.

This marble pound cake is tasty and beautiful. If you re feeling extra fancy you can top the cake with a bit of chocolate ganache. By beating the egg whites first you won t have to wash the beaters to use them again. A marble cake is the combination of chocolate and vanilla cakes swirled together this is a great marble cake recipe.