Old Fashioned Marble Pound Cake Chocolate Glaze Recipes

CHOCOLATE MARBLE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• Butter two 5-by-9-inch loaf pans. Combine all-purpose flour and salt in a bowl.
• Cream butter and sugar with a mixer on high speed until pale and fluffy, for 8 minutes. Scrape down sides of bowl. Reduce speed to medium, and add vanilla extract.
• Lightly beat eggs, and add to mixer bowl in 4 additions, mixing thoroughly after each and scraping down sides. Reduce speed to low, and add flour mixture in 4 additions, mixing until just incorporated.
• Butter two 5-by-9-inch loaf pans. Combine all-purpose flour, unsweetened cocoa powder, and salt in a bowl.
• Cream butter and sugar with a mixer on high speed until pale and fluffy, for 8 minutes. Scrape down sides of bowl. Reduce speed to medium, and add vanilla extract.
• Lightly beat eggs, and add to mixer bowl in 4 additions, mixing thoroughly after each and scraping down sides. Reduce speed to low, and add flour mixture in 4 additions, mixing until just incorporated.
• Scoop batters into prepared pans, 1/2 cup at a time, alternating plain and chocolate. Swirl with a knife. Tap on counter to distribute; smooth tops.
• Bake until a tester inserted into center of each cake comes out clean, about 65 minutes. Let cool in pans on a wire rack for 30 minutes. Remove from pans, and let cool completely on wire rack.

OLD-FASHIONED MARBLE BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• For the vanilla batter: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Generously spray a 12-cup Bundt pan with the baking spray.
• Combine the butter, sugar, salt, baking powder, vanilla and oil in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat on medium speed for 4 minutes. Stop and scrape the bowl and paddle with a rubber spatula. Add 2 of the eggs at a time, beating on medium speed for 30 seconds after each addition. Scrape the bowl.
• Add half of the cake flour and mix on low speed just until combined. Add the cream and buttermilk and mix again on low speed just until combined. Scrape the bowl.
• Add the remaining cake flour and start mixing on low speed to combine, then increase the speed to medium and beat for 4 minutes.
• For the chocolate batter: Transfer 2 cups of the vanilla batter to a medium bowl. Add the cocoa, sugar and baking powder and stir with a fork or small whisk until completely combined. Add the hot water and stir slowly until completely combined.
• Pour about half of the vanilla batter into the prepared pan. Dollop about half of the chocolate batter on top. Repeat with the remaining vanilla and chocolate batters. Run a skewer or butter knife through the pan to slightly swirl the 2 batters together.
• Bake until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out with a few moist crumbs, 65 to 70 minutes. The cake will rise to fill the pan and will settle slightly once removed from the oven. Let the cake cool in the pan for about 30 minutes then turn it out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

MARBLE SWIRL POUND CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, with electric mixer at low speed, beat sugar and butter or margarine until blended. Increase speed to high, and beat until light and fluffy. Add flour, milk, baking powder, vanilla, salt, and eggs; beat at medium speed until well mixed. Increase speed to high, and beat batter 4 minutes longer.
• Remove about 2 1/2 cups batter to a medium bowl. With a wire whisk or fork, beat cocoa into batter in medium bowl until well blended.
• Grease a 10 inch tube pan. Alternately spoon vanilla and chocolate layers into prepared pan. With a large spoon, cut and twist through batters to obtain marbled effect.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool cake in pan, and on a wire rack, for 10 minutes. Remove cake from pan, and cool completely.

EASY CHOCOLATE BUNDT CAKE GLAZE

Steps:

• In a saucepan over medium heat, combine the sweetened condensed milk and chocolate chips. Cook, stirring constantly, until the chips are melted and the mixture is smooth. Do not allow it to bubble. Remove from the heat and stir in vanilla. Cool slightly before drizzling over a cake. If you want to make this ahead, it can be cooled and reheated in the microwave.

CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE GLAZE

Steps:

• FOR THE CAKE:.
• Cream shortening and butter; gradually add sugar, beating well at medium speed with an electric mixer. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition.
• Sift flour, baking powder, salt, and cocoa together. Add to creamed mixture alternately with the milk, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Mix just until blended after each addition. Stir in vanilla.
• Pour batter into a greased and floured 10 inch tube pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 10 to 15 minutes; remove from the pan, and cool completely on a wire rack.
• Spoon Chocolate Glaze over the top of the cake, allowing it to drizzle down the sides of the cake. Sprinkle top of cake with chopped pecans, if desired.
• FOR THE CHOCOLATE GLAZE:.
• Microwave the chocolate baking squares in a large glass bowl at high for 1 1/2 minutes, or until melted, stirring twice. Add sugar and water, beating at medium speed with an electric mixer until blended. Add egg, and beat until blended. Add egg yolk, and beat until mixture cools. Add butter, 1 tbsp at a time, beating until blended. Serve over cake.

OLD FASHIONED MARBLE BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• Grease an 8" bundt pan with butter then lightly dust with flour.
• In a double boiler melt the unsweetened chocolate with 1/4 cup sugar, water and vanilla extract. Stir. Set aside to cool. (I used a heatproof glass container and melted the mixture in a microwave.).
• In a large mixing bowl, cream the remaining 1 cup sugar, sour cream and the softened butter until light and fluffy.
• Mix in the eggs one at a time.
• Sift the flour with the baking powder, salt and baking soda.
• Mixing on slow speed, alternate dry ingredients and the buttermilk into the mixture.
• Mixing on low speed, beat until just incorporated, stopping to scrape down the sides.
• Once combined, beat on high speed for 2 1/2 minutes.
• Set aside 2 1/2 cups of the batter.
• Beat the melted chocolate mixture into the large mixing bowl of batter until combined and smooth.
• Alternately spoon the plain batter and the chocolate batter in the prepared bundt pan.
• Use a butter knife to cut through the batter to create a marble effect.
• Bake for approximately 40-45 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
• Cook cake 10 minutes, invert onto a cake platter.
• Dust with confectioner's sugar while still warm.
• Yield: One 8" bundt cake.

OLD-FASHIONED MARBLE CAKE (NO CHOCOLATE)

Steps:

• Separate the eggs; beat egg whites until stiff and set aside.
• Make the light part and then the dark part:.
• Light Part: Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Mix together flour and baking powder and stir into batter alternately with milk and mix until blended, but do not overbeat. Stir in the lemon rind and vanilla. Fold in beaten egg whites, then set light portion aside.
• Dark Part: Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.Beat in egg yolks one at a time.Mix flour, baking powder and spices together and add dry ingredients alternately with the milk, then stir in vanilla.
• In a greased and floured pan tube pan, arrange spoonfuls of light and dark batter alternately.
• Bake at 350 degrees for about 50 minutes or until cake tests done (depends on your oven, original recipe did not give time).
• If desired, frost with a white boiling icing that has been flavored with lemon juice, or flavor a buttercream icing with lemon juice and spread on cake while warm.