Marble Bundt Cake
Poundcake is a dense cake with a rich, buttery taste. To move to another level is the moist marble bundt cake with a ganache glaze. It always starts with the room temperature butter in a stand mixer, then add a cup of sugar.
Place your sour cream in a cup, then add two teaspoons of vanilla extract, then add to the stand mixer and beat that for a minute. Sift your all-purpose flour together with baking powder and half a teaspoon of salt.
Add three ounces of melted bittersweet chocolate. The addition of the chocolate to your batter does impact the texture of the cake. Add two tablespoons of cocoa powder, which intensifies the flavour and the colour.
Start with the vanilla cake batter and pipe some dollops into each bundt mould, then switch to the chocolate and fill in the gaps. Whether you are baking the marble cake in a large bundt pan or even in a loaf pan, you could still use the same technique.
The final step before popping them in the oven is using a skewer to swirl and mix the chocolate and the vanilla. Because of their smaller size, they are going to bake for 20 minutes in a 350-degree Fahrenheit oven. Let them cool in the tin, then onto a baking tray after 30 minutes. Dip them in your ganache, then serve.
Ingredients;
- ½ cup unsalted butter, slightly cooler than room temperature
- 1 cup of sugar
- 2 large eggs, just at room temperature
- ⅔ cup sour cream (full-fat)
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 3 oz bittersweet chocolate, melted and cooled
- 2 tsp cocoa powder, sifted
Instructions;
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a mini bundt pan (12 cups), tapping out any excess flour.
- Beat the butter and sugar using electric beaters or in a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, until fluffy.
- In a separate bowl, lightly whisk eggs with a fork and add them a little at a time while mixing on medium speed.
- Stir the sour cream and vanilla together and beat them in.
- In a separate bowl, sift the flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Add this to the batter, while beating on low speed until fully incorporated, scraping the sides and bottom of the bowl to ensure this.
- Spoon out a third of the batter into another bowl. Stir the melted chocolate and the cocoa powder into this and stir until blended.
- Spoon the batter into 2 piping bags fitted with a plain tip and pipe vanilla and chocolate batter intermittently into each mini bundt pan.
- Use a skewer to swirl the batter just a little. Bake the cakes for about 20 minutes, until a skewer inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean.
- Cool the cakes for 30 minutes, then turn the cakes out to cool completely before glazing.
