Marble Loaf Cake

Gently cut through batter with a knife to swirl.

Marble loaf cake. Invert onto cooling racks. 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. Pound cake does tend to be more dense than a regular cake but this pound cake recipe is nice and moist. Moist chocolate cake marbled with vanilla cake batter an easy marble cake baked in just 60 minutes.

In a small bowl combine 1 2 cup batter and chocolate syrup. Run knife through batters to marble. Carefully loosen cakes from pans. This is the technique i used here as i find it less messy and quicker.

A tube cake with vanilla and chocolate layers swirled together to achieve a marbled effect. The whole thing bakes up into one giant rich marble loaf pound cake. If so use 1 tablespoon cocoa powder to mix the batter. If you line your pan carefully with foil using your knuckles not to tear it you won t have to wash the pan.

Pour the remaining batter into a greased and floured 9x5 in. Spoon half the yellow batter in each loaf pan. If you re feeling extra fancy you can top the cake with a bit of chocolate ganache. You may cut down the chocolate portion to 1 3 of the batter.

Cool in pans 5 minutes. This marble pound cake is tasty and beautiful. There are two ways to create a marble effect. 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.

Now that our two cake batters are ready it is time to combine them to create the marble bread. Spoon chocolate batter over the top. How to create the marble effect. I used 3 mini loaf pans to make the marble cake.

Bake at 350 f for 45 to 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. 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. By beating the egg whites first you won t have to wash the beaters to use them again. Even easier than my chocolate cake with all the richness of my vanilla pound cake recipe this marbled loaf is a show stopper.

This pound cake recipe uses the same idea as a marble cake and then tops it with a thick chocolate frosting. A marble cake is the combination of chocolate and vanilla cakes swirled together this is a great marble cake recipe. 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. By piping the batters using piping bags or by dropping dollops of batters into the loaf pan with a spoon or ice cream scoop.